CORONA CURFEW EASED IN 6 MORE DISTRICTS IN UP

LUCKNOW : The Uttar Pradesh government will relax the coronavirus curfew in six more districts from June 1, it was announced on Monday. With this, 61 districts will be allowed to open markets and shops (outside the containment zones) on weekdays (Monday to Friday) from 7 am to 7 pm, Tuesday onwards.

Fourteen districts (out of 75), including Lucknow, will continue with the partial corona curfew.

In relaxations announced on Sunday, the partial corona curfew was lifted in districts with less than 600 active Coronavirus cases. The districts added to the list on Monday are: Sonbhadra, Deoria, Baghpat, Prayagraj, Bijnor and Moradabad. The additional chief secretary (home) Awanish Kumar Awasthi issued an order adding these six districts among those that will see the curbs lifted from 7 am on Tuesday.

: The Uttar Pradesh government will relax the coronavirus curfew in six more districts from June 1, it was announced on Monday.

With this, 61 districts in Uttar Pradesh will be allowed to open markets and shops (outside the containment zones) on weekdays (Monday to Friday) from 7 am to 7 pm from Tuesday onwards.

Fourteen districts (out of 75), including Lucknow, will continue with the partial corona curfew.

The districts added to the list on Monday are: Sonbhadra, Deoria, Baghpat, Prayagraj, Bijnor and Moradabad. Additional chief secretary (home) Awanish Kumar Awasthi issued an order adding these six districts to the list.

The 14 districts that will not see relaxations are Meerut, Lucknow, Saharanpur, Varanasi, Ghaziabad, Gorakhpur, Muzaffarnagar, Bareilly, Gautam Buddh Nagar, Bulandshahr, Jhansi, Lakhimpur Kheri, Jaunpur and Ghazipur.

The Uttar Pradesh government on Sunday had announced a relaxation in curbs and had set the benchmark of “less than 600 active Covid-19 cases” for a district to be entitled to curfew relaxation.

However, the weekend corona curfew (Saturday and Sunday) and night curfew will continue state-wide.