Delhi Weekend Curfew: DDMA issued new guidelines amid declining Covid cases – Check what’s allowed, what’s not - The DDMA released fresh Covid-19 guidelines for the national capital on Friday. Some prohibitions have been revised in view of reducing Covid cases.
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COVID-19: Delhi govt likely to extend lockdown by another week
The Delhi government is likely to extend the ongoing lockdown by another week, although the Covid situation is improving in the city with less number of cases and declining positivity rate in the past few days, official sources said on Saturday. Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal had first imposed a lockdown on April 19 which was later extended multiple times, lastly on May 16.
In the last 24 hours, around 2,200 cases were reported in the city and the positivity rate too declined to 3.5 per cent, Kejriwal said in an online briefing earlier in the day.
Lockdown in Delhi: CM Kejriwal extends curbs for one more week - What s allowed, what s not
Lockdown in Delhi: CM Kejriwal extends curbs for one more week - What s allowed, what s not
Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal on Sunday announced that his government has decided to extend COVID-19 lockdown for one more week.
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Updated: May 16, 2021, 01:30 PM IST
Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal on Sunday (May 16) announced that his government has decided to extend COVID-19 lockdown for one more week. He said that instead of tomorrow, the lockdown has been extended till next Monday, 5 am in Delhi.
During the lockdown, essential services like medicine shops, vegetable shops, groceries will be allowed but shop owners and customers will have to ensure social distancing.
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COVID-19: Delhi lockdown extended for a week, says CM Kejriwal
Lockdown in Delhi has been further extended by a week, Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal said on Sunday. We are extending the lockdown by one more week in Delhi, the chief minister said today. Delhi recorded 6,430 new COVID-19 cases and 337 more fatalities on Saturday while the positivity rate dipped to 11.32 per cent, authorities said. The national capital had recorded 8,506 new cases on Friday and a positivity rate of 12.40 per cent.
As many as 289 more patients had succumbed to the disease on Friday, according to a health bulletin.
Meanwhile, doctors at leading government and private hospitals in Delhi said there is a relative fall in the number of cases and still a long way to go before the daily count falls below the 2,000-mark, as it was a few months earlier.
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Delhi lockdown extended till May 17
The ongoing lockdown in Delhi will be extended for another week up to May 17 morning and Metro train services will be halted during the period, Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal said on Sunday. He said although COVID-19 cases have come down in the last few days, any slackness would squander the gains achieved so far in the current wave of the pandemic. The Delhi government had been forced to impose lockdown amid a steep rise in COVID-19 cases on April 20.Â
Although the cases have come down and the positivity rate has reduced from the high of 35 per cent on April 26 to around 23 per cent now, but strictness is needed, he said.