new delhi continuing with his consultations with state governments on ways to check the spread of coronavirus during unlock 10 prime minister narendra modi on wednesday is holding interaction with chief ministers and representatives of 14 states and the union territory of jammu and kashmirhis virtual interaction on day two of his consultations with states is attended by the chief ministers of maharashtra delhi karnataka gujara uttar pradesh and bihar among others and assumes importance as some of these states account for a majority of the cases in the countryduring the meeting it was decided to utilise the existing testing capacity along with making constant efforts to expand itthe prime minister said that there is a need to counter the fear and stigma associated with coronavirus we must battle fear and stigma by highlighting the high number of those who are recovering from the virus he saidprime minister observed that the spread of the virus is greater in certain big states and cities a high density of population difficulty in maintaining physical distancing and daily movement of people in huge numbers has made the situation challengingthe pm also praised the discipline shown by people during the lockdown and said that it prevented exponential growth of coronavirus in the country the prime minister also refuted reports of a second lockdown saying that planning for unlock 20 should startwe need to now think about phase 2 of unlock and how to minimize all possibilities of harm to our people he saidthe pm noted that with a reduction in restrictions indicators of economic performance are showing signs of revival inflation has also been kept under control pm modi asked the states to take steps to boost infrastructure and constructionrelated workduring the discussion the chief ministers provided feedback shared details of measures to boost health infrastructure and steps taken to spread awareness in their respective statespm modi underlined the increase in domestic manufacturing capabilities of ppes masks availability of diagnostic kits in adequate quantity the supply of ventilators made in india using pm cares fund availability of testing labs lakhs of covid special beds thousands of isolation and quarantine centres and adequate human resource through training west bengal chief minister mamata banerjee is not participating in the meet as her name was reportedly missing from the list of speakerson tuesday too he had interacted with chief ministers lgs and administrators of 21 states and uts on opening up the economy and at the same time preventing a surge in coronavirus casesthe meeting comes on a day the country registered the highestever spike of 2003 covid19 fatalities pushing the death toll to 11903 after maharashtra and delhi added earlier deaths that were not attributed to the diseasewith inputs from pti