Get into mission mode: PM Modi tells States as Covid-19 cases surge

Modi: Central teams to be sent to Punjab, Maharashtra, Chhattisgarh; follow 5-pronged strategy to fight pandemic

As India recorded over 93,000 cases in the last 24 hours, the highest single-day increase since mid-September 2020, Prime Minister Narendra Modi asked states to take stringent measures, with comprehensive restrictions in places. Modi was addressing a high-level meeting on Sunday to take stock of the alarming rise in Covid cases and the progress of the vaccination drive in India.
 

The Prime Minister also asked states reporting high cases to “continue with the mission-mode approach” so that the collective gains of Covid-19 management in the last 15 months are not squandered.
 

Modi has directed that central teams consisting of public