Amid rising cases and speculations of lockdown again, reports say PM Narendra Modi will hold a video conference with all state Chief Ministers amid ‘Unlock 1’.The meeting will be held in two parts on June 16 and 17. The Prime Minister is scheduled to hold talks with CMs of 21 states / UTs on 16 June – Punjab, Assam, Kerala, Block, Uttarakhand, Chhattisgarh, Tripura, Himachal, Chandigarh, Goa, Manipur, Nagaland, Ladakh, Puducherry, Arunachal, Meghalaya Mizoram, A&N Islands, Dadra Nagar Haveli and Daman Diu, Sikkim and Lakshadweep.

The Prime Minister had previously held a meeting on May 11 with all state Chief Ministers to discuss an exit strategy for the nation as the deadline for the lockdown approached. Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, Home Minister Amit Shah, Health Minister Dr. Harsh Vardhan, and some more ministers were present in the meeting.

Meanwhile, India became only the fourth country in the world — after the United States, Brazil and Russia — to report more than 300,000 cases of the coronavirus disease (Covid-19) on Friday.

The country reported 11,172 new cases and 384 new deaths on Friday, taking the total number of cases to 309,324, and deaths to 8,882.

While the last 100,000 cases surfaced in only 10 days; the previous 100,000 cases took 15 days; and the first 100,000 cases took 78 days.

Amid all this, the health ministry claimed that the doubling time of coronavirus cases in India has improved to 17.4 days currently from 15.4 days a couple of weeks ago.