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  • Punjab govt eases Covid-19 curbs, lifts weekend curfew

    Doing away with many of the Covid restrictions, Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh Friday ordered the lifting of weekend and night time curfew within the state. He additionally allowed gatherings of 100 individuals indoors and 200 individuals outside from Monday.
    The step by the federal government comes after the state’s Covid positivity fee slid to 0.4 per cent.

    Singh additionally ordered the opening of bars, cinema halls, eating places, spas, swimming swimming pools, gyms, malls, sports activities complexes, museums and zoos and many others., topic to workers and guests having taken at the very least 1 dose every of the Covid-19 vaccine.
    Though faculties will proceed to stay closed, schools, teaching centres and all different establishments of upper studying are allowed, topic to a certificates having been submitted saying that each one instructing, non-teaching workers and college students have been given at the very least one dose of the vaccines, at the very least 2 weeks in the past.
    Singh, who reviewed the state’s Covid-19 scenario just about, stated that one other overview might be achieved on July 20. He additionally directed officers to make sure strict use of masks and directed the DGP to challan political leaders violating Covid norms whereas holding rallies and protest conferences.
    During the assembly, Heath Secretary Hussan Lal stated that 4 districts within the state have proven positivity of 1 or lower than 1 per cent, nevertheless, including that districts corresponding to Ludhiana, Amritsar, Gurdaspur, Hoshiarpur, Firozpur and Ropar want monitoring.

    Referring to circumstances of Mucormycosis (Black Fungus), which has been reported in 623 sufferers as of July 8, Singh requested the well being division to work out a proposal for supporting and serving to within the therapy of such sufferers. Of the 623 circumstances, 67 are from exterior the state, Lal knowledgeable throughout the assembly, including that 337 sufferers have been present process therapy and 154 have been discharged, whereas 51 sufferers died.
    ‘Step up genome sequencing’
    The chief minister additionally requested involved departments to step up the Whole Genome Sequencing (WGS) to expeditiously determine circumstances of recent Covid variant and to quick observe the mission for execution of the MoU with ICMR for Regional Institute of Virology, Mohali.
    Though no recent circumstances of Delta Plus variant (other than two reported earlier primarily based on May sampling) have been recognized within the state, Singh directed that WGS lab at GMCH Patiala, developing with the help of PATH, should turn out to be purposeful by the tip of this month.

  • With Covid restrictions on gatherings, inauguration of Jallianwala Bagh Memorial in Punjab delay indefinitely

    With restrictions on any form of “political gatherings” being in place in Punjab to curb the Covid unfold, the much-awaited inauguration of Jallianwala Bagh Memorial has been delay indefinitely.
    The revamped monument was to be nearly inaugurated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who can be the chairperson of the Jallianwala Bagh Memorial Trust, on April 13, to mark 102 years of the bloodbath by which 379 individuals had misplaced their lives. The memorial has been shut for the general public since February 2019 for an intensive makeover being carried out by the National Building Construction Company.

    Rajya Sabha member and BJP chief Shwait Malik, who can be a member of the Jallianwala Bagh National Memorial Trust, instructed The Indian Express, “The plan was to open it to the public from April 13, but in the wake of stricter restrictions being announced in the state last week, it has been decided to postpone the inauguration. In any case, we can’t hold any gathering or open it for the public. So, who do we inaugurate it for if we can’t allow visitors?”

    A Rs 19.36 crore package deal was introduced by the Centre in 2019 as part of commemorating the one centesimal yr of the bloodbath. Restoration work and constructing of amenities (equivalent to bathrooms, ticketing counters and ingesting water) are being performed beneath the Ministry of Culture presently.
    Malik added that establishing these amenities continues to be a piece in progress. “Although 90 per cent of the work has been complete, some final touches are still being given,” he mentioned.
    The improve work features a five-minute mild and sound present in Hindi, Punjabi and English for guests.

    Meanwhile, the entry and exit factors have been repositioned, and a lotus pond has been constructed round the principle memorial. Also, a glass wall now surrounds the Martyrs’ Well and the passage from the doorway to the nicely has been redesigned. A Salvation Ground has been constructed for guests to take a seat in silence to honour the martyrs and two new show galleries have been added to the memorial.
    The memorial has additionally change into a political hotspot with each the Centre and the state governments laying their claims over its legacy. In 2019, the Centre introduced in a invoice to take away the president of the Congress get together as a everlasting trustee to the Jallianwala Bagh Trust. It additionally empowered the central authorities to terminate a nominated trustee earlier than the expiry of his/her time period.
    Recently, Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh introduced the constructing of a separate memorial devoted to the Jallianwala Bagh bloodbath in Amritsar.

    Malik mentioned, “The CM is going to construct a memorial for martyrs just 5 km away from the Jallianwala Bagh. The trust was run by the Congress for 70 years and ruined the garden. I am not against the new memorial but oppose the politicisation of the issue.”

  • Night curfew, ban on gatherings and extra: How states are stepping up amid renewed Covid surge

    As India stares at a attainable second Covid-19 wave with instances rising throughout the nation, a number of state governments have introduced in restrictions to curb the unfold of the virus.
    While Maharashtra has ordered theatres, auditoriums and workplaces to absorb solely 50 per cent of their capability until March 31, the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation on Friday determined to close malls and multiplexes on weekends. Similarly, Punjab has banned social gatherings in 11 worst-hit districts of the state and closed instructional establishments, aside from medical and nursing faculties, until March 31.
    Maharashtra
    On Thursday, Maharashtra had reported 25,883 new instances of coronavirus infections, its highest single-day rely for the reason that begin of the pandemic. Following this, all personal workplaces, besides ones associated to well being and different important providers, had been ordered to operate at 50 per cent capability until March 31. The state authorities additionally banned non secular, social, political and cultural gatherings at drama halls and auditoriums.

    Gujarat
    In Gujarat, the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation determined to close malls and multiplexes on weekends after the civic physique elevated the curfew within the metropolis by one hour from 9 pm to six am. In Surat, too, which recorded 324 new instances within the final 24 hours, the curfew time was prolonged from 9 pm to six am.
    Punjab
    Taking an identical stance, Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh ordered a slew of restrictions starting Saturday, together with closing all instructional establishments until the month-end and curbs on cinema and mall capacities. In 11 worst-hit districts of Ludhiana, Jalandhar, Patiala, Mohali, Amritsar, Hoshiarpur, Kapurthala, SBS Nagar, Fatehgarh Sahib, Ropar and Moga, a whole ban has been ordered on all social gatherings, aside from funerals and weddings, which can be allowed with solely 20 individuals in attendance. This can be enforced from Sunday.

    The chief minister additionally appealed to the folks to maintain social exercise of their properties to a naked minimal for the subsequent two weeks to interrupt the chain of transmission. “Not more than 10 visitors should be entertained in homes,” he urged whereas chairing a gathering of the Covid process pressure.
    Karnataka
    With Bengaluru, too, recording a spike in coronavirus instances, native civic physique — Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike — is more likely to suggest to the Karnataka authorities to shut gyms, swimming swimming pools, neighborhood halls in flats, and open-air gyms in parks. “We will recommend closure of gyms, swimming pools and party or community halls in apartments in the city, besides closure of open-air gyms in all BBMP parks,” BBMP Commissioner N Manjunatha Prasad mentioned on Friday.