PM Asks States with Rising Covid-19 Cases to Take Proactive Steps to Prevent Third Wave

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday (July 16) urged states where COVID-19 cases are rising to take proactive measures to prevent a third wave and stressed on moving forward with the strategy of test, track, treat and 'tika (vaccine)'.

Modi said apprehensions about a third wave of the coronavirus are being expressed with the number of cases in some states a matter of concern.

During an interaction with the chief ministers of Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Odisha, Maharashtra and Kerala, he said that 80 per cent of the new COVID cases last week were from these states.