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Ranchi: Ahead of the roll-out of Covid-19 vaccines across the country on January 16, Prime Minister Narendra Modi held an online meeting with chief ministers of all the states on Monday evening. Chief minister Hemant Soren along with chief secretary Sukhdev Singh, health secretary Nitin Madan Kulkarni and principal secretary Rajiv Arun Ekka attended the meeting from the Project Building in Ranchi. Soren, however, didn’t get a chance to speak at the meet. Talking to TOI, Ravi Shankar Shukla, the director of the state chapter of the National Health Mission (NHM), said:“The government of India is yet to officially notify the details of the arrival of the vaccines in the state but we are expecting to get the first consignment on January 14. At our end, we have completed all the crucial ground work required to store the vaccine.” Soon after Modi’s address to the chief ministers, the Union health department held marathon online meetings with the health departments of all th ....