Delhi Night Curfew: No New Year Celebration In Delhi Tonight And Tomorrow
Date: 31/12/2020
Tonight and tomorrow, between 11 PM and 6 AM, no public gatherings will be permitted in Delhi as the state government has declared a night curfew to limit New Year celebrations. After 20 cases of new mutant coronavirus strain - considered to be substantially more contagious - were identified across the country, the centre had asked the states to consider a number of restrictions and scale down the New Year celebrations.
The Delhi Disaster Management Authority claimed in a statement that no New Year's celebratory gatherings, congregations and meetings in public places are allowed from 11 pm on 31 December to 6 am on 1 January and 11 pm on 1 January and 6 am on 2 January. However, traffic flow would not be limited.
In a letter on Monday, the Home Ministry urged the states to ensure strict vigil to verify the spread of coronavirus. "The number of Covid 19 active cases is declining steadily in the country for the last three-and-half months. Keeping in view the fresh surge of Covid-19 cases in Europe and Americas, there is still a need for maintaining comprehensive precaution and strict surveillance within our country," a top official wrote to the states.
Celebrations of the New Year "pose a considerable threat of the spread of the virus and may cause a setback to the appreciable gains made in the suppression of chain of transmission of COVID-19 cases in Delhi," the DDMA said in its release, adding that a "detailed assessment of the situation" was made in the city in view of the threat posed by the COVID-19 virus mutant strain in the UK.
In the last few weeks, the United Kingdom, where the latest mutant strain was first identified in September, has undergone a huge surge in coronavirus infections. Earlier this month, Britain said the outbreak was out of reach, leading to a fresh round of global controls in the wake of a pandemic.
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