April 7, 2021
There’s a sense of pandemic deja vu in India as states start imposing curfews to stop the spread of coronavirus.
The country is in the grip of a raging second wave of Covid-19 infections, which threatens to be worse than India’s worst infection count in September 2020. On April 4, there were over 100,000 new cases of novel coronavirus infections for the first time since the pandemic spread in March 2020, higher than India’s last peak of 98,000 in September. The past 24 hours saw the biggest jump yet with over 115,000 new cases.
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With night curfews in place in both Delhi and Mumbai, Swiggy and Zomato have stopped taking orders at 7:30 pm, missing out on peak time for dinner orders.
Mumbai:Food delivery platforms Zomato and Swiggy and the restaurants they work with are already feeling the brunt of the latest round of restrictions imposed by governments in two of their biggest markets.
With night curfews in place in both Delhi (10 pm to 5 am) and all of Maharashtra, including Mumbai (8 pm to 7 am), several large chains have announced closure of their restaurants.
Operations of Zomato and Swiggyhad rebounded to pre-pandemic levels a couple of months ago. But the impact of the latest round of restrictions became evident on Monday itself, when both platforms stopped taking orders at 7:30 pm and missed out on peak time for dinner orders.
Restaurant sector stares at massive losses as states reimpose strict Covid-19 curbs
Restaurant sector stares at massive losses as states reimpose strict Covid-19 curbs
The restaurant sector, which was limping back to normalcy post the 2020 lockdown period, is once again staring at huge losses as several states have reimposed strict Covid-19 curbs amid a second wave of the virus outbreak.
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Delhi s Connaught Place. (Photo: Aishwarya Paliwal/India Today)
India is staring at a second Covid-19 wave with daily numbers crossing the 1-lakh mark and businesses are once again worried about the economic slowdown as a result of curbs that states are announcing to tackle the virus spread.
Delhi night curfew: Restaurants, marriage planners stare at bleak future
The Delhi government has announced exemptions for various categories of people, including include those travelling to and from airports, railway stations and bus terminuses.
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Some also supported the decision, saying people were likely to step out in the night with increasing temperatures. (Photo | PTI) By PTI
NEW DELHI: People in Delhi wondered whether the move to impose night curfew would be effective in checking the spread of the coronavirus cases, which are shooting up over the past few days.
They argued that there was a need for better implementation of guidelines and heftier fine against violators during the day instead of imposing a night curfew when most of the population is already indoors .
Riding out the Maha lockdown
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This feels so 2020.
Maharashtra is once again in lockdown, albeit partially, and the threat to businesses looms large in India’s richest state. But this time, e-commerce firms know better. There are learnings from last year. For restaurants, however, this better not be a death knell, for deliveries too are curtailed.
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Maha lockdown. Ecomm unlocked
Lockdown 2021: In a notification issued Sunday. the state government announced a partial lockdown, night curfew and shutdown of malls, multiplexes, restaurants and bars to curb the steep spike in Covid-19 cases. Delivery and supply chain staff of e-commerce firms must either be vaccinated or carry a negative RT-PCR test report that would be valid for 15 days, starting April 10.