Inside the fight against COVID-19 in India, there is no “war room” for a disease that is best fought by maintaining physical distance. Instead it is being fought by forming discrete groups of officials and Ministers who communicate remotely and whose lynch pin at the Centre, apart from Prime Minister Narendra Modi, is Principal Secretary to the Prime Minister P.K. Basically to co-ordinate with regulatory agencies to validate data a little faster than it would you usually do for kits etc,” said the source. “Prime Minister Modi has a direct line to all of them and they too can access him via Mr. Mishra. He has also been calling up our frontline warriors like nurses and doctors to keep the morale up,” said the source.

Source: The Hindu March 29, 2020 11:15 UTC