NEW DELHI: The Prime Minister's Office on Wednesday held a high-level meeting to review preparedness and response to coronavirus and decided to adopt a pan-government approach in partnership with the states to further enhance the effectiveness of the steps taken to prevent the spread of the virus.The meeting, which was chaired by P K Mishra, the principal secretary to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, was the latest in a series of stock-taking meetings at the PMO.Today’s meeting was attended by Cabinet secretary, foreign secretary, secretaries of ministries of health, civil aviation, information and broadcasting, shipping, tourism, chairman (Airport Authority of India), secretary (Border Management), MHA and senior officials from Defence forces, National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA), Niti Ayog and the Prime Minister’s Office.The meeting appreciated the pro-active measures taken so far which have contained spread of the virus in India, despite a big population and geographical proximity to the epicentre of the disease.The members were briefed about the two important changes introduced to further enhance the level of preparedness, namely universal screening at all international airports and sea-ports through use of thermal imagery equipment as well as mandatory filling of declaration forms of places visited by tourists and travellers returning from abroad.Ministry of home affairs was tasked to work closely with state governments, including relevant district administration officials, to ensure compliance with screening protocols at Integrated Check Posts (ICPs) on our land borders.National Informatics Centre would provide the requisite support to the Bureau of Immigration and MHA in this regard.Decisions were also taken to rapidly implement opening of proper testing, isolation and quarantine facilities in various parts of the country, down to the district level, in partnership with the state governments.Ministry of information and broadcasting was tasked to work closely with ministry of health, ministry of human resource development and NDMA to disseminate information to the general public in a timely manner, including relevant advisories and ‘Do’s and Don’t’s’.The ministry of health has started a system of regular daily briefings by their spokesperson, so as to ensure access to real time data for the public in a timely manner. Ministry of health is also coordinating the activation of a GIS mapping of ‘disease hotspots’ and availability of medical facilities, with NDMA, relevant agencies and government departments.