Bhubaneswar, April 8: In a first Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik will chair cabinet meeting through videoconferencing on Thursday.

Sources said that the cabinet meeting will be attended by ministers from their respective places and important decisions related to Covid-19 will be taken in the meeting.

Earlier on March 30 a one-day session of Odisha Assembly was held in convention centre in Lok Seva Bhavan instead of the State Assembly for the first time. The decision to shift the venue was taken after a Covid-19 patient was found to have visited the dispensary of the State assembly.