Amit Shah to hold multi-stakeholder meeting today to review coronavirus management in the NCR
New Delhi:
Interior Minister Amit Shah will hold a multi-stakeholder meeting today to review the management of coronavirus in the national capital region, which includes Delhi and parts of Uttar Pradesh and parts of Haryana. The meeting, an official note said, will take place at 11:00 am in the North Block. Invited parties include the ruling Aam Aadmi party from Delhi, Congress, the BJP, the Bahujan Samaj party from Mayawati and the Samajwadi party from Akhilesh Yadav.
This meeting follows restrictions imposed by the Supreme Court on Maharashtra, Delhi and Tamil Nadu – states with the highest incidence of coronavirus.
Neighboring Uttar Pradesh and Haryana had sealed the border with Delhi, saying that the movement of people to and from the national capital was spreading infection in the states.
Delhi has reported 2,224 new cases of coronavirus and 56 deaths in the past 24 hours, government data said on Sunday evening, bringing the total number of cases in the city to 41,182 and 1,327 deaths.
