The CM mentioned that the current surge of Coronavirus situations was on account of lax behaviour on the element of men and women along with the opening of schools and colleges in the state..
With the Coronavirus scenario in Punjab obtaining worse, state Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh has told Prime Minister Narendra Modi that the state would take harsher measures to rein in the increasing Covid-19 tally in the state from today. According to an Indian Express report, Singh is believed to have told PM Modi that the government has currently formulated a policy and it will be implemented beginning from today.
Mentioning many measures which have currently been taken by the state, Singh told the PM that curbs have been imposed on the quantity of men and women attending indoor and outside events along with the enforcement of evening curfew in as quite a few as nine districts of the state. While the quantity of men and women who can attend an indoor function is one hundred, that for attending outside functions is 200 respectively. The evening curfew in nine districts has been imposed from 11 PM to 5 AM with guidelines issued to other states to assess the scenario at ground level. The quantity of challans issued by the state police has also improved lately as police officials are imposing fines on men and women who are not complying with the Coronavirus recommendations. On the vaccination front, the government is making sure that all well being workers have been vaccinated and these who have not got the shot are tested weekly for Coronavirus.
With day-to-day positivity price climbing to above 5 % and getting more than 12000 active Coronavirus patients in the state, the CM urged PM Modi to critique the Covid-19 vaccination technique and make arrangements for the vaccination of persons in all age groups in chosen locations which are reporting a big quantity of situations. The CM also mentioned that an occupation distinct vaccination technique which prioritises teachers, students, bus drivers, bus conductors could also bring the super-spreader events of Coronavirus down.
Punjab which was registering a positivity price of about 1 % in January has observed a sudden spike in the quantity of new Coronavirus situations with the day-to-day positivity price climbing to 5 instances in March. The CM mentioned that the current surge of Coronavirus situations was on account of lax behaviour on the element of men and women along with the opening of schools and colleges in the state..