Prime Minister Narendra Modi will interact with chief ministers of eight northeastern states today morning on coronavirus disease (Covid-19) situation, said a Government communique.
The northeastern states, namely Assam, Nagaland, Tripura, Sikkim, Manipur, Meghalaya, Arunachal Pradesh and Mizoram have shown a spike in cases of Covid-19 lately with several of the worst affected districts in terms of high case load belonging to these states.
Arunachal Pradesh has the maximum districts, 10, reporting high case positivity, followed by Manipur (9 districts), Meghalaya (6 districts), Assam and Sikkim (4 each), Tripura (3), Mizoram (2) and Nagaland with 1 district reporting more than 10% case positivity.
Inputs: Hindustan Times