Madhya Pradesh imposes weekend lockdown in all cities as COVID-19 spreads

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Bhopal: Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan on Thursday (April 8, 2021) introduced to impose weekend lockdown in all cities on account of COVID-19 instances. The weekend lockdown shall be enforced from 6 pm on Friday to six am on Monday.

“I do not want a long lockdown, this is the last option. But to break the situation a little, urban areas will remain closed in Madhya Pradesh from 6 pm on Friday to 6 am on Monday, the lockdown will remain,” stated Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan.

He additionally stated that his authorities goals to extend the variety of beds for COVID-19 sufferers in the state to at least one lakh.

The Chief Minister knowledgeable that numerous disaster administration teams will maintain conferences to evaluation the state of affairs in cities the place there was a surge in COVID-19 infections and can determine the plan of action to comprise it.

The Madhya Pradesh authorities has additionally determined to arrange one COVID-19 care centre in every district and the personal hospitals are additionally being roped in to extend the variety of beds for COVID-19 sufferers, CM Chouhan said. 

This is to be famous that in the previous three weeks, the state authorities has imposed lockdowns in Bhopal, Indore, Jabalpur and Gwalior on Sundays and prolonged the curbs to another cities final Sunday.

Madhya Pradesh witnessed 4,043 new COVID-19 instances on Wednesday, which took the state’s complete COVID-19 tally to three,18,014, of which, 26,059 are energetic instances. 

Since March 31, Madhya Pradesh has recorded 22,503 recent COVID-19 instances together with 100 fatalities. The state has to date seen 4,086 deaths and a pair of,87,869 recoveries.

 

(With inputs from companies)





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