Life comes to halt as weekend curfew underway in Delhi
Life in the nationwide capital has come to a halt as town, grappling with soaring COVID-19 instances noticed weekend curfew, with Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Saturday interesting to folks to adhere to the restrictions. The weekend curfew aimed toward breaking the chain of spiralling coronavirus infections was clamped at 10 pm on Friday and can proceed until 5 am on Monday.
“There is curfew in Delhi today and tomorrow due to Corona. Please follow it. Together we have to defeat Corona,” Kejriwal tweeted.
Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal will even hold a review assembly on the COVID-19 scenario as we speak. Nodal Minister for COVID19 administration Manish Sisodia, Health Minister Satyendar Jain and different officers will participate in the assembly.
The Delhi authorities and the police have issued e-passes to exempted class individuals who want to exit through the curfew for obligatory companies and activites like vaccination, going to railway stations, airports, grocery and fruit and vegetable stalls.
The e-passes issued for already imposed night time curfew can be relevant through the weekend curfew as effectively, the federal government has stated.
Public transport together with DTC and cluster buses and metro trains are operating at decreased capability and frequency for these concerned in important companies and activites.
Delhi recorded its highest-ever one-day COVID-19 figures on Friday when 19,486 instances and 141 deaths had been reported, prompting Chief Minister Kejriwal to order establishing extra coronavirus amenities and improve the energy of oxygen beds.
The authorities will review the scenario of COVID-19 in Delhi following the weekend curfew and resolve the longer term plan of action together with its extension or another measures, officers stated.
(With PTI inputs)
