COVID-19: PM Narendra Modi to hold review meeting at 9:30 am with experts

Amid the ravaging second wave of COVID-19 in the country, Prime Minister Narendra Modi will meet experts today to review the situation of oxygen and medicine availability in the country. Prime Minister Narendra Modi will chair the meeting at 9:30 am with various experts. The Prime Minister will also assess the human resource situation in view of the pandemic and ways to augment it. 

The second COVID-19 wave has overwhelmed hospitals, morgues, and crematoriums and left families scrambling for scarce medicines and oxygen.

Though India is the world's biggest producer of COVID-19 vaccines, shortages of the shots in some states have hindered the start of a mass vaccination drive.

Some experts blame the rallies and mass religious gatherings attended by millions for the severity of the second wave of COVID-19.