A well being employee takes a swab pattern to test for COVID-19 at a authorities hospital in Noida, a suburb of New Delhi. (Representational picture)
Over 300 Police personnel in Delhi examined positive for coronavirus out of whom 15 of them have been admitted to hospital, police knowledgeable on Thursday. Speaking on the scenario, Delhi Police Commissioner SN Shrivastava had earlier stated a few of our police personnel have examined positive in the previous few days. During conducting our duties, we’ve to take all precautions together with carrying a 3-ply or N95 masks, sustaining social distancing and sanitising.
Meanwhile, within the final 24 hours, the nationwide capital reported 16,699 contemporary Covid circumstances with a pointy rise within the positivity price to over 20 per cent, and 112 fatalities, in accordance to knowledge shared by the well being division.
While the variety of positive circumstances was decrease than on Wednesday, it was due to fewer assessments performed. The 16,699 new circumstances got here out of 82,569 assessments accomplished on Wednesday, comparatively lower than the over 1.08 lakh examinations accomplished on the day gone by.
As per the newest bulletin, the positivity price stands at 20.22 per cent, the best until date in Delhi, whereas the loss of life toll recorded to this point is 11,652.
Over 2,400 booked, 143 circumstances registered for night time curfew violations in Delhi
Over 2,400 individuals have been booked for allegedly violating the night time curfew imposed by the Delhi authorities amid a surge in coronavirus circumstances, police stated on Thursday.
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According to knowledge shared by the police, 143 circumstances have been registered from 10 pm on Wednesday to 5 am on Thursday.
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“A total of 2,484 people were booked under sections 65 (persons bound to comply with the reasonable directions of a police officer) of the Delhi Police Act, 107 (security for keeping the peace in other cases) and 151 (arrest to prevent the commission of cognizable offences) of the CrPC,” Delhi Police Additional PRO Anil Mittal stated.
The police issued 377 challans to individuals for violating COVID-19 norms, he stated. The Delhi authorities had introduced a seven-hour night time curfew not too long ago. The resolution was taken after the Delhi Disaster Management Authority (DDMA) reviewed the COVID-19 scenario within the metropolis.
The DDMA order for curfew from 10 pm to 5 am will probably be in pressure until April 30. However, individuals of sure professions have been exempted from the curfew.
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