3,353,630.0 West Bengal joined the states that have imposed a complete lockdown to contain the COVID pandemic, while many like Uttar Pradesh and Chhattisgarh extended the restrictions as the national tally of active cases saw a marginal decline. The government on Saturday said that the overall COVID-19 situation in the country is stabilising, though it is a mixed picture across the states in terms of the trend in daily new cases and deaths. Chairing a high-level meeting, Prime Minister Narendra Modi spoke of augmenting healthcare resources in rural areas and asserted that localised containment strategies are the need of the hour, especially in states with a high positivity rate in districts.