The Delhi government has announced night curfew in the capital starting today amid recent surge in Covid cases. The curfew will be effective till April 30th. Residents are not allowed to come out of their house from 10 pm to 5 am. This comes at a time when Delhi reported about 3,500 infections daily for the past two days with a positive rate of above 5 percent.
Essential services and emergency movement of vehicles will be allowed like in previous rounds of night curfew.
People who are not a part of essential services have been advised to stay at home during the night curfew.
Medical shops, hospitals, and Covid vaccination centres will remain open.
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal has been insisting that lockdown cannot be a solution in the fight against the pandemic.
The last time night curfew was imposed in Delhi was on December 31 and January 1 to tackle gatherings to usher in the new year.
Meanwhile, the Delhi government has ordered that one-third of inoculation sites at its hospitals run the round-the-clock and directed government as well as private hospitals to augment the number of beds reserved for coronavirus patients as the national capital recorded over 3,500 fresh COVID-19 cases and 15 more deaths. The case positivity rate also rose to 5.54 per cent amid a massive surge in cases in the last few weeks
Maharashtra, among the worst affected states, has already imposed a night curfew to contain the spread of the virus.