With a lot of professionals saying that India is previous the Covid-19 infection peak and in view of a constant drop in the quantity of new Coronavirus situations for the lost 4 month, the government has decided to loosen up a lot of Covid-19 restrictions beginning from February. Several activities in the economy which had been fully restricted in the course of the initial phases of lockdown are inching towards normalisation of their operations. The aviation market which had been one of the worst impacted has been permitted to to operate with 80 % of the seating capacity from the month of December. On the education front a lot of state governments have permitted the re-opening of schools of class 10th and class 12th students who are going to seem in the board exams this year. Several states have permitted the opening of schools and colleges for the students of other classes as effectively. Among the important easing of restrictions from February, the government has permitted cinema halls in the nation to operate with one hundred % capacity. Here is the list of activities which have been permitted to open up additional from February, according to an Indian Express report.
Cinema Halls
According to the suggestions issued by the Union Home Ministry, the cinema homes in the nation can operate at their one hundred % capacity beginning from the month of February. After remaining closed for a period of more than six months, the cinema halls had been 1st permitted to operate with 50 % capacity but now the government has permitted the cinema halls to operate at complete capacity. The government has on the other hand instructed the cinema hall owners to adhere to all the physical distancing suggestions such as the requirement of wearing face masks at all occasions inside the cinema hall.
University of Delhi opens from February 1
Considered one of the premier varsities in the nation, the administration of Delhi University has asked all teaching faculty to be physically present from February 1. However, the authorities have only permitted the students of final year to attend the college physically in smaller batches. The authorities have also clarified that all final year students are not obliged to attend the college physically and only these students who are prepared to attend the classes can attend college from February 1.
Opening of Schools
After enabling the students of class 10th and class 12th to attend college final week, the Delhi government has now permitted students from class 9th and class 11th to attend the classes also from February 5. In impact, the schools in the national capital have been opened for the students studying in larger secondary classes. In a related choice the state government of Gujarat has also permitted the students from class 9th to 12th to attend schools from February 1.
Aviation Industry
The reopening of the aviation sector began operations with 33 % capacity in the month of May. The government then in a cautious manner improved the carrying capacity of the domestic flights in a number of phases to 80 %. Since the month of December, the domestic flights have been operating at a capacity of 80 %.
On the international front, the government of India has established the air bubble arrangements with 24 nations which incorporate nations like US, UAE, UK, France, Kenya, Bhutan amongst other people. Under the air bubble arrangement, pick airlines from each the participating nations are permitted to operate a pick quantity of flights in a distinct period. With the arrival of more deadly variants of Coronavirus in distinctive nations of the planet, it is anybody’s guess when the international aviation market will come back to its pre-Covid regular operations.
With the emergence of a UK variant major to extreme spike in the quantity of infections all about the planet, the Indian government had also imposed restrictions on the international flights coming and going to the United Kingdom. The restrictions on the travel of all scheduled flights to and from the UK has been extended till February 14. Under the restricted operations, only a set of 30 flights are permitted to fly and come back from the United Kingdom in a week.