Pm will hold a review meeting with district directors from more than 40 districts | Latest News Headlines

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will hold a review meeting on November 3 with district magistrates from more than 40 districts that have low vaccination coverage against COVID-19, the PMO said on Sunday. The meeting, which will be held by videoconference, will include districts with less than 50 percent coverage of the first dose and low coverage of the second dose of the vaccine, he said.

The 40 districts are spread over Jharkhand, Manipur, Nagaland, Arunachal Pradesh, Maharashtra and Meghalaya, among other states, and the top ministers from these states will also attend the meeting.

Modi will hold the meeting immediately upon his return from abroad after attending the G20 and COP26 meetings, the PMO noted. Highlighting the need to accelerate the pace and coverage of vaccination, the Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya had recently stated that there are more than 10.34 crore of people in the country who have not taken the second dose of the vaccine after the expiration of the prescribed interval.