Within four days of ruling out possibility of any lockdown in Delhi, the Arvind Kejriwal government has decided to enforce night curfew in the national capital territory from 10 pm to 5 am. This will get implemented from today and is expected to be in force till April 30. Delhi’s health minister Satyendar Jain tweeted the details of the night curfew.

Essential services and emergency movement of vehicles will be allowed during the night curfew.

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The Delhi government has been pushing for vaccination of large number of people. Yesterday it declared vaccination centres to remain open 24*7 to vaccinate more and more people against COVID-19. It has ordered its hospitals to keep one-third of their corona vaccination sites running round the clock, in order to accelerate the inoculation drive. Today onwards, one-third of vaccination centres will be open in the capital from 9 pm to 9 am. 

Meanwhile, as of today (April 6) morning 8 am, India had a total 788,223 active cases and a total of 165,547 deaths due to coronavirus.

Yesterday, 4.3 million people were vaccinated in India, the highest single-day COVID-19 vaccination for any country in the world.

Four days back, on April 2, in a press briefing, Kejriwal had said that there was no plan to impose any lockdown in Delhi. If there’s a need to do any such thing in future, we will first consult with you and take a decision, he had said.  

Meanwhile, on April 4, Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray announced a new set of guidelines called — Break The Chain. These guidelines have come into effect from yesterday and are likely to be in place till April 30. Restrictions include a night curfew and a “strict lockdown” over the weekends from Friday 8 pm to Monday 7 am in Maharashtra. Shops, malls, schools, colleges, markets, except groceries, medicines, will remain closed.

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Thackeray has also written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi requesting him “to further lower the age group eligible for vaccination to 25 years old to curb the intensity of the rising cases in the state.” In his letter, he informed the prime minister that the prevailing second wave of the virus is much stronger than the first wave the state faced last year.

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