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Meghalaya: Leaders meet to discuss prevailing COVID-19 situation

<span style="color: #222222;">In Meghalaya, leaders of the ruling Meghalaya Democratic Alliance Government and Opposition Congress met today for the second time to discuss the prevailing situation due to COVID-19 pandemic.</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;"><br />'' In the meeting a detailed presentation was made by the Chief Secretary on the s following the last meeting held on 25 th of April. <br />''<br />''The presentation highlighted the summary of stranded citizens, detailed the entry protocol and gave an insight into the evacuation model being followed to bring back the stranded citizens of Meghalaya from various parts of the country. Updates were also presented on the status of health infrastructure as well as the testing capacity. Many suggestions were also offered, discussed and included.</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;"><br />'' Chief Minister Conrad K Sangma later told reporters that positive suggestions have come up during the meeting and every suggestion is important to improve. He said, the most important message is that all the leaders irrespective of their party affiliation are working together in this fight against COVID.</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;"><br />'' Meanwhile, Leader of the Opposition Dr Mukul Sangma said that they had given a lot of suggestions and the main highlight includes relooking and revisiting at the Standard Operating Procedures in certain situations like putting everyone returning from outside under home quarantine. He reasoned that by putting everyone under home quarantine many elderly populations living together will also be vulnerable to the virus.<br />''<br />''The meeting decided to jointly urge the citizens of Meghalaya to provide sensitive support to all COVID-19 positive individuals and those probable cases and not to stigmatize any individual as the virus can affect any person.</span>

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