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Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday effectively ruled out the imposition of another strict national lockdown while interacting with Chief Ministers of various states via a virtual meeting. He defended his government’s approach to vaccination and repeatedly laid down great emphasis on testing, tracing, treatment and covid-safe behaviour which he stated, has helped India get the better of the first wave of coronavirus infection in the country especially at a time when there was no vaccine and it was not even certain that vaccination of the covid-19 disease would be discovered or not.
PM Modi’s comment came at an emergency meeting with all the chief ministers during which he urged 100% testing in the containment zones and to trace down at least 30 contacts within 72 hours to further ensure that the symptomatic patients can be tracked quickly and the disease could be prevented from spreading.