Coronavirus India Live Updates: Maharashtra, Punjab contribute highest each day Covid-19 circumstances

In Nagpur on Monday. Amid a brand new wave of Covid infections, with over 2,000 each day circumstances, the town headed right into a weeklong lockdown beginning Monday. (PTI)

The Maharashtra authorities has stated cinema halls, accommodations, eating places, malls and workplaces flouting Covid-19 laws will likely be shut down “until the Covid-19 pandemic stays notified as a disaster by the central government”. It additionally stated these institutions, barring well being and different important companies, would function at 50 per cent capability.

Nagpur metropolis and adjoining areas beneath the town police commissionerate went beneath a week-long lockdown on Monday, with solely important companies remaining open. Nagpur is the primary metropolis within the nation to go beneath lockdown throughout the second wave of Covid-19. Many violators of the lockdown have been penalised; a complete high quality of Rs 1,37,200 was collected from 464 individuals who have been both not sporting masks or not sustaining social distance.

A Parliamentary panel has discovered that the lockdown led to a spurt in circumstances of home violence and trafficking, and really helpful continued money transfers and moratorium on mortgage repayments, amongst different steps, to empower girls. The report by Department-related Parliamentary Standing Committee on Home Affairs offers with “atrocities and crimes against women and children”. The committee is headed by Congress Rajya Sabha MP Anand Sharma.