AGARTALA / NEW DELHI, April 2 (TIWN): Prime Minister Narendra Modi held a video conference with the Chief Ministers to discuss the measures to contain the spread of COVID-19 pandemic. Tripura CM Biplab Deb also attended the meeting via video conference.

The conference comes in the backdrop of increasing number of cases of COVID-19 patients across the country which is under 21-day lockdown to break the chain of transmission of the disease.

The meeting is significant in terms of measures that have so far been taken by all the states, Union Territories as well as the central government to meet various challenges triggered by the crisis.