Punjab Prime Minister Captain Amarinder Singh has ordered a nightly curfew across the state from 10 p.m. to 5 a.m. starting on December 1, in the wake of the increase in novel coronavirus cases in the state, according to the ANI news agency.
Along with that, the state government also ordered to double the fine for not wearing masks or maintaining social distance or for disobeying any other Covid protocol of ₹500 to ₹1,000.
All hotels, restaurants, wedding palaces close at 9:30 p.m. All curbs will be checked around December 15th.
The various announcements came after the prime minister chaired a high-level state Covid review meeting earlier that day.
After the meeting, Singh asked Chief Secretary Vini Mahajan to encourage more private hospitals to provide beds for the treatment of Covid-19 patients in the state.
Meanwhile, twenty-two more deaths from COVID-19 in Punjab brought the death toll to 4,653, while the number of cases rose to 1,47,665 on Tuesday with 614 new infections.
Ludhiana district recorded a maximum of 103 new COVID-19 cases, followed by 94 in Jalandhar and 82 in Patiala, among others.
The Punjab governor’s top secretary was one of six people who tested positive for coronavirus in Chandigarh.
There are 6,834 active cases of COVID-19 in the state, to date, according to the bulletin.
A total of 439 coronavirus patients were discharged after recovering from the infection, bringing the number of people cured to 1.36,178, according to the bulletin.
A total of 30,51,542 samples have been collected for testing so far in the state, he added.
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