PM Modi To Chair Covid Review Meet Today As India Logs Highest Surge In Cases In 224 Days

PM Modi's Covid review meet comes at a time when India logged the highest daily surge of Covid infections in 224 days.

PM Modi to chair Covid review meet (Image: File Photo PTI)

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will chair a Covid review meet with top officials of PMO, Union Ministers, and other important health officials today. Apart from Union Home Minister Amit Shah, Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya, cabinet chief secretary Rajiv Gauba, Home Secretary Ajay Kumar Bhalla and director-general of ICMR will be present. 

The meeting is scheduled for 4:30 pm today and according to ABP News sources, PM will focus on states recording a huge surge in Covid and Omicron cases in the past few days. 

PM Modi's Covid review meet comes at a time when India logged 552 new cases of Omicron, taking the total tally of such infections to 3,623 across 27 states and UTs so far, according to the Union Health Ministry data updated on Sunday.

Out of the total Omicron cases, 1,409 people have migrated or recovered.

Maharashtra recorded the maximum number of 1,009 cases followed by Delhi at 513, Karnataka 441, Rajasthan 373, Kerala 333 and Gujarat 204.

A total of 1,59,632 new coronavirus infections were reported in a day, the highest in 224 days, while the active cases increased to 5,90,611, the highest in around 197 days, according to the data updated at 8 am.

On May 29 last year, India had logged 1,65,553 infections in a day.

The death toll climbed to 4,83,790 with 327 fresh fatalities, the data stated.

The active cases comprise 1.66 per cent of the total infections, while the national COVID-19 recovery rate decreased to 96.98 per cent, the ministry said.

An increase of 1,18,442 cases has been recorded in the active COVID-19 caseload in a span of 24 hours.