New Delhi: As the concern of a 3rd wave hangs within the air, the Center on Wednesday suggested the States & UTs to contemplate imposing localized restrictions for upcoming festivals like Muharram, Onam, Janmashtami, Ganesh Chaturthi, and Durga Puja and curb mass gatherings.
In this regard, he urged the states and UTs to seek advice from the instructions issued beneath the Disaster Management Act by the Home Ministry on June 29 for focussed containment measures.
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Union Health Secretary Rajesh Bhushan wrote a letter to the chief secretaries and directors of all states and UTs stating that the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) and the National Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) have pointed in the direction of the potential of such mass gatherings as tremendous spreader occasions.Â
Bhushan mentioned regardless that the trajectory of day by day new instances has proven a gentle decline over the past month, there are a number of states which nonetheless replicate indicators of an upsurge of their day by day instances and positivity.
“In light of this order, and in view of upcoming festivals such as Muharram (August 19), Onam (August 21), Janmashtami (August 30), Ganesh Chaturthi (September 10), Durga Puja (October 5-15), where large public gatherings are expected, it is advised that states may actively consider the imposition of local restrictions in public observation of these festivals and curb mass gatherings,” PTI quoted Bhushan’s letter.
The Centre on Tuesday mentioned that the reproductive quantity or R-value that signifies the velocity at which COVID-19 is spreading is a couple of and is displaying an growing pattern in eight states and UTs – Himachal Pradesh, Jammu, and Kashmir, Lakshadweep, Tamil Nadu, Mizoram, Karnataka, Puducherry, and Kerala – which is a explanation for concern.
The Kerala authorities got here out with a contemporary set of relaxed lockdown norms on Wednesday, Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan mentioned that the state registered 22,414 new Covid instances after 1,97,092 samples had been despatched for testing prior to now 24 hours. On Tuesday, 23,676 folks had turned constructive.
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