Dharamshala, April 13 -- Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Jai Ram Thakur has asked the local health and administrative authorities to declare a place or locality as 'mini containment zone' if more than five cases of COVID-19 are reported in that area.

Frequency of testing should be increased and people should be encouraged to vaccinate themselves. He urged the local bodies and NGOs to come forward and help the state government to educate people in fight against the resurge of Corona virus which is more potent and deadly than the last year.

He was pressing over a virtual meeting to review the Covid-19 situation in Kangra and Chamba districts after the new surge of the pandemic.

Thakur said that the number of active cases has been on rise i...