COVID-19: Task force says no to blanket lockdowns
India | Apr 18, 2021, 02:23 PM ISTIts report said the experience of past year has shown that economic closures are most disruptive to the poorest sections of the society.
Its report said the experience of past year has shown that economic closures are most disruptive to the poorest sections of the society.
Assam Health and Family Welfare Minister said on Saturday that lower primary schools would be closed in districts where 100 active COVID cases are found in 10 days.
The pandemic situation in Delhi is getting grim as the nation goes through its second wave of coronavirus. But at a time when daily Covid cases in Delhi are touching over 20,000, people were still not found following lockdown strictly, giving bizarre excuses.
The administration in Madhya Pradesh's Indore district has extended the partial lockdown it had imposed in light of the COVID-19 spread till April 23, an official said on Saturday.
The Directorate of Information, Public Relations and Languages Department said an order being circulated in social media about the imposition of weekend lockdown from April 17 is absolutely fake.
In view of the rising coronavirus, the Chandigarh administration has passed orders to impose weekend lockdown in the city. The weekend lockdown will remain effective in the district from Friday 10 pm onwards to Monday 5 am.
Metro services will be available with a headway of 15 min across the whole network on the weekend, the DMRC said in a tweet.
Essential services will be allowed during restrictions that will come into effect at 8:00 pm on Saturday night and will remain in place till Monday 7:00 am.
Talks of a complete lockdown have gathered momentum particularly after several states announced strict measures, including night and weekend curfews as Covid cases continue to skyrocket.
Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray in a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi suggested various measures to be undertaken as the nation goes through the second wave of coronavirus. The suggested measures are concerned with delaying GST payments and interest-free instalments, financial help to those affected most by Covid restrictions, among others.
'Lockdown-like' curfew measures have been clamped from Wednesday night in Maharashtra and people residing in the state are already feeling lockdown blues.
Looking at perpetually increasing coronavirus cases in Delhi, CM Arvind Kejriwal has announced a weekend curfew and other guidelines.
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Maharashtra DGP Sanjay Pandey on Wednesday informed that shops selling essential items and public transport including local trains, buses will remain operational during the 15-day strict lockdown-like measures aimed to break the infection's chain.
The Uttar Pradesh government has already announced restrictions on gatherings of five or more people in religious places for effective control of the Covid-19 pandemic during Navratri and Ramzan.
Even with the second wave, we are very clear that we are not going in for lockdowns in a big way, Nirmala Sitharaman said.
Section 144 (prohibitory orders) of the Criminal Procedure Code will be in force till the 'lockdown-like restrictions are in place, Maharashtra CM Uddhav Thackeray said.
CM Uddhav Thackeray, in his virtual address to the state, said that public transport would be available only for those involved in essential services during the 15-day 'janta curfew' starting Wednesday (April 15).
CM BS Yediyurappa clarified that Technical Advisory Committee has not recommended any lockdown.
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