Coronavirus: Nighttime curfew has been imposed in more Gujarat cities
Ahmedabad:
Some cities in Madhya Pradesh and Gujarat will see a nightly curfew starting tomorrow amid a surge in COVID-19 cases.
No one except those providing essential and emergency services will be allowed to leave from 9 pm to 6 am in Gujarat’s Rajkot, Surat and Vadodara starting tomorrow, ANI news agency reported citing Senior Deputy Minister Nitin Patel.
In Madhya Pradesh, the night curfew will be in effect between 10 p.m. and 6 a.m. starting tomorrow in Indore, Bhopal, Gwalior, Vidisha and Ratlam. “People engaged in essential services and factory workers are exempt,” Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan said, according to ANI.
The night curfew in more cities in Gujarat comes a day after a similar restriction was announced for Ahmedabad until November 23. Only stores selling milk and medicine will be allowed to remain open during the “full curfew” in Ahmedabad, Chief Minister Vijay Rupani said. .
The decision to impose a night curfew in Ahmedabad and subsequently in more cities in Gujarat was made on Thursday at a meeting led by Rupani, in the presence of his deputy, Mr. Patel. Senior officials of the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation also participated in the meeting.
Ahmedabad has been reporting more than 200 COVID-19 cases a day, up from 140 cases a day a few months ago. About 230 new cases were reported Thursday.
The Gujarat government has decided not to reopen schools and colleges on Monday.
The Health Ministry said that Dr. SK Singh, director of the National Center for Disease Control, will lead a team to the state to assess the coronavirus situation.
India’s new coronavirus infections rose by 45,882 in the past 24 hours to reach 90,04,365, government data shows. Recoveries increased to 84.28 lakh, bringing the national recovery rate to 93.6%. As many as 584 people have died from the disease since Thursday, the total number so far being 1.32,162. There are up to 4,43,794 active cases in the country.
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