PM Narendra Modi dials Manmohan Singh, Deve Gowda, Pranab Mukherjee amid COVID-19 crisis
New Delhi/IBNS: At a time when the country is witnessing a surge in the number of COVID-19 cases, Indian PM Narendra Modi on Sunday reached out to two former presidents and two former prime ministers of India to discuss country’s response to the crisis, media reports said.
Pranab Mukherjee and Pratibha Patil are the two former Presidents to have received a call from the prime minister while Manmohan Singh of the Congress and Deve Gowda of the JD(S) are the two former prime ministers to have been approached over the phone, said officials who didn’t wish to be named, to Hindustan Times.
The prime minister is also said to have called up Congress president Sonia Gandhi, Samajwadi Party patriarch Mulayam Singh, SP chief Akhilesh Yadav, Trinamool Congress chief and West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee, Odisha chief minister and BJD supremo Naveen Patnaik, Telangana chief minister K Chandrashekhar Rao, DMK chief MK Stalin and Shiromani Akali Dal patriarch Parkash Singh Badal, reported the newspaper.
As per the Ministry of Health website, the number of COVID-19 infected cases in the country now stands 3030.
The number of deaths due to the disease now stands at 77.
So far, 22 people have been cured or discharged from the hospital.
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