Chandigarh: As Punjab continues to file a spike in Covid-19 instances with the each day positivity price climbing to over 5 %, Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh on Thursday prolonged the timings of evening curfew in 9 worst-hit districts by two hours.
The 9 districts the place the evening curfew has been prolonged had been Ludhiana, Jalandhar, Patiala, Mohali, Amritsar, Gurdaspur, Hoshiarpur, Kapurthala and Ropar, all getting greater than 100 constructive instances each day.
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The evening curfew in these areas shall be in place from 9 pm to five am versus 11 pm to five am. Meanwhile, different districts have been requested to evaluate the scenario and take motion accordingly.
“Covid is in very dangerous situation in Punjab again. Yesterday 2,039 positive cases were reported and there were 35 deaths. A day earlier there were 40 deaths in state,” the Chief Minister stated.
CM Amarinder Singh warned that if required, he would go for extra stringent measures to comprise the Covid unfold within the days to return. He additionally clarified that he was not in favour of proscribing the motion of individuals in spiritual locations.
During Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s digital Covid-19 evaluate assembly with chief ministers of all states which happened on Wednesday, Amarinder Singh had urged the Centre to evaluate its immunisation technique to vaccinate all age teams in chosen areas.
He additionally said that Punjab’s testing per million has been maintained at increased than the nationwide common.
As for the Covid-19 case tally, Punjab reported 2,387 recent instances, together with 32 fatalities. The complete energetic instances within the state are 14,366.
(With Agency Inputs)
