Delhi Chandni Chowk market.
Delhi’s Chandni Chowk market will remain shut till April 25 in view of the exponential rise in COVID-19 cases, the merchants affiliation introduced on Sunday.
The Delhi Kirana Committee of Khari Baoli Market and the Chemical Merchant Association of Tilak Bazaar additionally introduced closure of markets till April 21.
“Today Chandni Chowk Sarv Vyapar Mandal in an emergency meeting with its members has decided to request its members to keep their establishment closed till April 25 in light of very serious condition of the virus spreading at a very large volumes. We will take a decision after assessing the condition on next Sunday,” Chandni Chowk merchants physique president Sanjay Bhargava stated in an announcement.
“The most alarming aspect is the galloping positivity rate and shortages of hospital beds, oxygen, ventilators and medicines and other medical facilities in use of the epidemic,” he added.
Several market associations had on Friday referred to as for strict enforcement of COVID-19 protocols and expressed that lockdown isn’t an answer.
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Keeping in view of the present situation of COVID-19, a gathering was held amongst all main retail markets and steered that that there must be extra strict enforcement of COVID-19 protocols in the course of the day as nicely relatively than simply relying on measures like evening curfew/weekend curfew and lockdown.
In a joint assertion issued by over 12 market associations, that they had expressed a standard view that implementing lockdown is certainly not an answer to take cost of the present pandemic.
The weekend curfew, geared toward breaking the chain of spiralling coronavirus infections, was clamped at 10 pm on Friday and can proceed till 5 am on Monday.
Delhi on Sunday reported 25,462 COVID-19 cases, the best single-day spike in the nationwide capital till date, in accordance to knowledge shared by the Health Department.
The metropolis additionally reported 161 deaths, whereas the positivity charge shot up to 29.74 per cent, additionally the best thus far.
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