NEW DELHI: With Maharashtra witnessing a rise in day by day coronavirus COVID-19 instances, the state authorities have introduced a ‘strict lockdown’ over the weekend. The weekend lockdown will begin from 8 pm on Friday (April 9) and be in place until 7 am on Monday (April 12). The authorities has additionally enforced an evening curfew in the state from 8 pm to 7 am day by day when solely important providers can be allowed to perform.
As per the notification, important providers together with medical, grocery, fruit, milk outlets can be allowed to be opened. Hotels can run the supply system. If the variety of corona instances doesn’t fall in the state following contemporary restrictions and there’s a scarcity of well being providers, the federal government could contemplate an entire lockdown throughout the state.
Section 144 has additionally been imposed prohibiting the meeting of 5 or extra folks all through the day.
On Saturday, Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray could maintain a gathering at his residence Varsha, in which imposing contemporary lockdown restriction in the state, like final yr, can be thought-about. Leaders of all events of the state have been invited to this assembly. The assembly can be attended by distinguished leaders of the three events concerned in the Mahavikas Aghadi authorities (MVA), leaders of BJP, MNS, API, SP amongst others.
Maharashtra reported 56,286 new coronavirus instances on Thursday (April 8), which took its caseload to 32,29,547, whereas on Wednesday it had recorded the best day by day depend of 59,907 instances. Last Sunday (April 4), the state authorities introduced a weekend lockdown and quite a lot of strict restrictions until April 30, together with an evening curfew and prohibitory orders during the day time to comprise the unfold of the virus.Â
