Prime Minister Narendra Modi will hold a series of meetings on Friday, including one with chief ministers of states with a high burden of Covid-19 cases. At 12:30 pm, he will hold a meeting with leading oxygen manufacturers in the country, they added.

Official sources said he will review the Covid-19-related situation in an internal meeting at 9 am followed by the meeting with chief ministers an hour later via video conference.

Slamming the Centre for 'lesser' allocation of Remdesivir to Telangana, Health Minister Etela Rajender on Thursday said the state has to be given preference as it is home to many manufacturers of the anti-viral drug.

Speaking to PTI, Rajender said the central government has allotted only over 21,000 from April 21-30 as against the state's expectation of four lakh.