New Delhi: Yogi Adityanath-led Uttar Pradesh authorities on Tuesday (April 20) imposed weekend lockdown within the state.
“Restraint and patience are our greatest weapons in the midst of this horror of Covid-19. Weekly ban (corona curfew) will be effective in the state every Saturday and Sunday. In addition, in districts where there are more than 500 active cases, the remaining activities will be restricted every day from 08.00 p.m. to 07.00 a.m. the next day except the necessary services. This rule should be implemented with immediate effect,” learn the order issued by the federal government on Tuesday.
“Only important providers can be allowed. Night curfew will stay imposed in all districts,” mentioned Awanish Okay Awasthi, Additional Chief Secretary.
The order additionally directed the authorities to ensure there’s police safety in any respect oxygen vegetation and GPS monitoring of autos with oxygen.
“All possible stringent action should be taken to check black marketing and profiteering of oxygen and other life saving drugs,” the federal government officers added.
In a big growth, the Supreme Court on Tuesday stayed for 2 weeks the Allahabad High Court order directing weeklong lockdown in 5 main COVID-19 affected cities – Allahabad, Lucknow, Kanpur, Varanasi and Gorakhpur – of Uttar Pradesh.
The prime court docket handed the order in response to the Uttar Pradesh authorities’s plea difficult the Allahabad High Court`s order to impose lockdown in its 5 worst-COVID-19 affected cities.
