GG News Bureau
New Delhi, 28th Dec. The Delhi Disaster Management Authority on Tuesday ordered the closure of schools, colleges, theaters, gyms and spas with immediate effect and imposed various restrictions on the functioning of shops and public transport amid rising cases of Covid-19. A ‘Yellow Alert’ has been issued on Tuesday under Level 1 of the Graded Response Action Plan (GRAP).
A night curfew from 10 p.m. to 5 a.m. is imposed with only 50 per cent attendance or capacity allowed in the private offices (from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.) and other public places like weekly markets, restaurants, bars, Delhi Metro and Delhi Transport Corporation (DTC) buses.
Gatherings at weddings and funerals are allowed, but only with the attendance of 20 people at most.
Essential shops, salons, bars, construction and manufacturing will function as usual. However, non-essential shops and malls will be operated on the odd-even basis from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m.
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal in a virtual press briefing on Tuesday said, “Delhi is mostly recording mild and asymptomatic Covid-19 cases. That is why there is no reason to panic. However, to ensure that the infection rate does not rise exponentially, a few restrictions under level 1 (yellow alert) is going to be imposed as the positivity rate continues to be more than 0.5 per cent for the past two days.”.
Delhi on Monday reported 331 new Covid-19 cases, taking the infection tally to 14,43,683 so far. This was the highest single-day rise after June 6 this year. With this, Delhi’s Covid positivity rate rose to 0.68 per cent.
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