Omicron: Meeting of Council of Ministers to be held today, LG to Review the situation in Delhi
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will chair the meeting of the Council of Ministers this evening amid rising cases of Omicron in India. Along with this, a meeting of the Delhi Disaster Management Authority (DDMA) will be held in the meeting of Lieutenant Governor Anil Baijal in Delhi, in which the status of new variants of Corona will be reviewed. According to media reports, PM Modi's meeting will be held at around four o'clock in the evening. All the Union Ministers are expected to participate in this.
According to media reports, PM Modi will hold a meeting of the Council of Ministers on Wednesday amid Omicron threat. This meeting of Prime Minister Modi is expected to be held at 4 pm. According to the report, all ministers are expected to attend the meeting and the things that are expected to be discussed in the meeting include assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh and Punjab next year. PM Modi took stock of the pandemic situation in a high-level meeting called last Thursday.
LG of Delhi has also been called at 4 pm
At the same time, a meeting of the Disaster Management Authority (DDMA) will be held under the chairmanship of Lieutenant Governor Anil Baijal on Wednesday amidst increasing cases of Corona and Omicron in Delhi. In this, the situation of the corona epidemic in Delhi will be discussed. This meeting of Lieutenant Governor Anil Baijal has also been called at four o'clock in the evening.
In the notice issued by DDMA on Tuesday, it has been said that the implementation of the Graded Response Action Plan (GRAP) will also be reviewed in the meeting due to the increase in the cases of corona in the city. The meeting will be done through video conferencing. In this, Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia, Health Minister Satyendar Jain, Chief Secretary Vijay Dev, NITI Aayog member VK Paul, Revenue Minister Kailash Gahlot, Joint Secretary of National Disaster Management Authority, Secretary of Health and Home Departments of Delhi Government and experts will be involved.
Schools-colleges closed in Delhi
On the other hand, because of the increasing threat of Omicron in Delhi, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal has issued a yellow alert on Tuesday. Under this, schools-colleges, cinema halls and gyms will remain closed, while shops of non-essential items will be opened on the odd-even formula. Along with this, metro trains will be operated with 50 percent capacity.
According to the first level alert under the Graded Response Action Plan (GRAP), night curfew will be in force from 10 pm to 5 am and only half of the employees will work in private offices except for essential categories. Along with this, restaurants were allowed to open from 8 am to 10 pm with 50 per cent capacity, while beer bars can also remain open from 12 noon to 10 pm with the same arrangement.