INDORE / GWALIOR : Following Madhya Pradesh Prime Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan’s announcement of a nightly curfew in five districts due to increased COVID-19 cases, nighttime curfews went into effect in Indore and Gwalior from Saturday . The nightly curfew will be from 10 pm to 6 am the next day.
In Indore city, police were hardly seen enforcing the night curfew. People were seen wandering the roads at midnight. While most stores were closed even before the night curfew began, few of them were open in the absence of police personnel. The gas pumps remained open even after 11 pm.
A total of 546 new cases of COVID-19 were reported in the Indore district on Saturday. There are 2,825 active cases.
Meanwhile, the Gwalior district administration ensured that markets closed during curfew starting at 10pm, asking people to follow the rules.
While most of the Gwalior city merchants cooperated, some blamed the recent Madhya Pradesh by-elections for the increase in COVID-19 cases.
“Some time ago when elections and public meetings were held, why weren’t those rules followed,” asked a merchant.
Police, meanwhile, searched all the vehicles.
According to the state government, people involved in essential services and factory workers have been exempted from the night curfew. On the buffer zone decision, the prime minister said he left it to the government’s crisis management group.
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