New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday attended a meeting with chief ministers of states on video conference wearing a home-made white cloth mask, in a move to encourage citizens of the country to compulsorily opt for masks to break the chain of COVID-19 infections. In the visuals of the meeting, Chief Ministers who attended conference call, too, were spotted in masks.
Saturday’s interaction was held to discuss and decide on the matter of extension of the nationwide lockdown, which was imposed to arrest the rapid spread of the coronavirus. Chief Ministers Amrinder Singh (Punjab), Mamata Banerjee (West Bengal), Uddhav Thackeray (Maharashtra), Yogi Adityanath (Uttar Pradesh), Manohar Lal (Haryana), K Chandrashekhar Rao (Telangana) and Nitish Kumar (Bihar) attended the video conference among others.
A visual PM Modi and West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee.
PM Modi and Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot snapped during the video conference.
While Punjab and Odisha have already announced an extension of the coronavirus lockdown beyond April 14, Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray and his Delhi counterpart Arvind Kejriwal harped on the vital role of a lockdown in the battle against the coronavirus pandemic, and sought for an immediate extension of the shutdown till April 30, at least.
Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray attending the video conference with PM Modi wearing an N95 mask.
PM Modi speaks to Karnataka Chief Minister BS Yediyurappa on viddeo call
A presentation on the current scenario was also showed to the chief ministers during the meeting.
The current spell of 21-day lockdown across the country ends on Tuesday (April 14).
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