Delhi imposes 10PM curfew due to sharp rise in Covid-19 cases

     Written by : SMTV24x7 | Mon, Apr 12, 2021, 03:01 PM

Delhi imposes 10PM curfew due to sharp rise in Covid-19 cases

Indias national capital Delhi imposed an immediate night curfew for its 29 million people on Tuesday as the countrys biggest cities braced for stricter lockdowns amid a rising wave of coronavirus infections.

The Delhi Disaster Management Authority DDMA announced orders to impose night curfews for the entire capital region beginning from Tuesday until 30 April due to a sudden rise in Covid cases and increased positivity rate.

India witnessed its biggest ever one-day jump of 103,558 new Covid cases on Monday, the first six-digit spike in daily infections since the beginning of a pandemic that has seen the country record 12.6 million cases in total.

Delhi alone has reported more than 3,500 new cases daily for four consecutive days, breaking a lull in cases that had previously seen in log no more than a few hundred a day for months.


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The movement of people and all commercial activity will now be stopped between 10pm and 5am, with exceptions for essential activities, including people going out for vaccination with an e-pass which has to be obtained from the Delhi government website.

It is the first curfew in Delhi since one was applied on 1 January to quash New Years Eve celebrations.