GUWAHATI: The Assam authorities on Tuesday declared unlocking procedure following the seven-week partial lockdown throughout continuing the next tide of Covid-19 pandemic from Wednesday.
According to the new normal operating procedure (SOP), curfew timings are reduced by one hour Guwahati, by four hours at eight areas in which the circumstance is relatively greater than the rest.
From the rest 24 districts, the current curfew timings of both 1pm into 5am will stay unchanged.
All educational institutions, both private and government, will stay shut, at least until June 21.
Curfew at Kamrup metropolitan area is going to likely be from 2pm to 5 am rather than current timings of 1pm into 5am contemplating the diminishing tendency of Covid-19 instances.
Private and government offices, stores and business establishments, restaurants, dhabas and other eateries, restaurants working inside a resort or hotel and purchase counters, showrooms, cold storages and warehouses will soon be operational until 1pm at Kamrup metropolitan area rather than 12pm.
From the eight relatively milder areas – Chirang, South Salmara, Majuli, Bongaigaon, Udalguri, West karbi Anglong, Dima Hasao along with Charaideo – all which has recovered less than 400 favorable instances in past ten times, curfew timings are relaxed and may now begin out and 5pm and finish at 5am while most workplaces and company can stay open until 4pm.
Health minister Keshab Mahanta reported that in five districts–Cachar, Tinsukia, Dibrugarh, Sonitpur and Nagaon, in which the complete amount of cumulative cases and daily cases continue showing persistently significant amounts, will be under close eye until June 21 and when the situation doesn’t increase, harsher measures, such as complete lockdown might be levied.
The ban on all inter-district transportation services and movement of individuals to and from different districts will stay in force for an additional week.
Additional restrictions, such as odd-even formulation for plying of vehicles within metropolitan locations, announcement of containment zones exemptions and etc.
may even continue to stay in force.
All private and government workers who’ve obtained the doses of Covid-19 vaccine have already been permitted to attend workplace mandatorily in Monday.
In the event the test positivity of Covid-19 reaches 5 percent or more in metropolitan areas and 10 percent or more from rural regions within 1 week, then district magistrate concerned are permitted to inform such regions as containment zone.
Unlike whole lockdown from the very first wave, the nation that time has enforced just partial lockdown using window of many hours through forenoon.
When instances improved, the authorities also raised curfew time –by nine hours nighttime curfew first to 17 hours later point.