The Jammu and Kashmir Government on Sunday lifted the Covid induced weekend curfew, with further easing of restrictions owing to significant improvement in the Covid situation. However, the night curfew would continue to remain in force in all districts from 8 pm to 7 am, an official order said.
In his order, Chief
Secretary A K Mehta said the decision was taken at a meeting of the State
Executive Committee with a focus on total weekly new cases, positivity rate,
bed occupancy, case fatality rate and vaccination coverage of the targeted
population.
‘Whereas it was
observed that as compared to the previous weeks, significant improvement has
been made by all districts in respect of the above parameters. However, there
is need to continue with some of existing COVID containment measures in all the
districts in view of the uneven trend in the daily COVID cases,’ the official
order said.
Extending the ongoing
restrictions till further orders, the SEC, however, announced relaxation in all
the districts on account of significant improvements in the Covid situation.
‘There will be no weekend
curfew in any districts’, the order said.
As per the official
order, the public and private educational institutions are permitted to seek
personal attendance of limited vaccinated staff for administrative purposes. The
maximum number of people permitted to attend indoor/outdoor gatherings shall be
restricted to 25.
The SEC asked the
district magistrates to constitute joint teams of police and executive
magistrates for enforcement of Covid appropriate behaviour.
Jammu and Kashmir
recorded 166 fresh cases of the coronavirus on Sunday, which took the infection
tally to 3,20,657, while no death occurred in the last 24 hours. Out of
division and 132 from the Kashmir division of the Union territory.
The number of active
cases dropped to 1,228 in the union territory, while 3,14,995 patients have
recovered so far. The death toll in the union territory due to the pandemic
stands at 4,374 as no fresh death was reported in the past 24 hours.
(From a daily News
Paper .. as per 25 th July)
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