Ahead of the completion of the nationwide lockdown 4.0, Cabinet Secretary Rajiv Gauba on Thursday held a meeting with municipal commissioners and district magistrates of 13 COVID-19 hit cities in the country, including Mumbai, Delhi, Kolkata and Chennai, officials said. The meeting bears significance as these 13 cities are considered to be the worst Coronavirus affected locations and constitute about 70 per cent of the positive cases in the country.

Chief secretaries and principal secretaries (health) of all states and Union Territories have attended the meeting through video-conference with the agenda of 'Public Health Response to COVID-19'. Municipal commissioners of Mumbai, Chennai, Delhi/New Delhi, Ahmedabad, Thane, Pune, Hyderabad, Kolkata/Howrah, Indore (Madhya Pradesh), Jaipur, Jodhpur, Chengalpattu (Tamil Nadu) and Thiruvallur (Tamil Nadu) attended the meeting, a Home Ministry official said. District magistrates or collectors of the 13 cities also joined the meeting, the official said.