U’KHAND TIGHTENS RESTRICTIONS

DEHRADUN: Night curfew in Uttarakhand will now begin at 7 pm instead of 9 pm and will continue till 5 am, officials said. The Uttarakhand government has also ordered the closure of markets in urban areas barring shops dealing in essential commodities from 2 pm onwards. The order aimed at checking spread of COVID-19 comes into effect from Wednesday, Chief Secretary Om Prakash said. “The night curfew timing for all 13 districts has been revised from 9 pm-5 am to 7 pm-5 am,” it said. The order of closing shops and business establishments also applies to shopping malls, he said. Considering the likelihood of people from Uttarakhand working in Delhi returning home in wake of a lockdown in national capital, online registration and a negative RT-PCR test report not older than 72 hours has been made mandatory for the returnees.