Coronavirus lockdown in Nagpur: Lockdown will be March 15-21 (Representative)
Bombay:
Nagpur in Maharashtra will be closed for a week, from March 15-21, due to the increase in coronavirus cases in the city. Essential services such as fruit and vegetable stores and milk stalls will remain open. More parts of the state could be blocked, Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray said, as COVID-19 cases have been on the rise in Maharashtra for nearly a month.
Nagpur reported more than 1,800 cases in the past 24 hours.
“In the coming days, there may be some places where the lockdown is unavoidable. We will make the decision in the coming days,” Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray said after receiving his first injection of the Covid vaccine.
The blockade has been imposed in all areas under the Nagpur Police Commissioner.
The move comes two days after a three-day “Janata curfew” was imposed in the Jalgaon district of Maharashtra, from 8 pm today to 8 am Monday.
Maharashtra has reported the highest daily number of new COVID-19 cases at 13,659, nearly 60 percent of new daily cases in the country. The state continues to have the highest number of Covid cases in India.
Thackeray had left it up to the local administration in each district to impose stricter measures, including night curfews or partial closures, to stop cases of infection.
The state health department on Wednesday unveiled a seven-point action plan, including close contact testing, rapid contact tracing, massive hot spot testing and death auditing. All district administrations were asked to act on the action plan.
Maharashtra, Kerala, Punjab, Karnataka, Gujarat, and Tamil Nadu continue to report high numbers of new COVID-19 cases and together account for 85.91 percent of the new coronavirus infection cases reported in the country in a 24-hour span. hours. the Union’s health ministry said Thursday.
India recorded 22,854 new Covid cases in the past 24 hours, the highest in two months, bringing the total case burden to 1,12,85,561.
Today marks one year since the World Health Organization declared the COVID-19 crisis a pandemic.
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