GUWAHATI: Assam on Tuesday declared partitioning of those seven-week partial lockdown enforced during the continuing second tide of Covid-19 by Wednesday with decrease from curfew timings by 1 hour at Guwahati and from four hours at eight districts in which the circumstance is relatively better.
From the rest 24 districts, the curfew will last from 1 to 5 am.
All educational institutions will stay closed until June 21.
According to the newest SOP, curfew will vary from 2 pm to 5 am, rather than the current 1 pm to 5 am everyday, at Kamrup (Metro) district contemplating the diminishing trend of 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 etc cold storages and warehouses will soon be operational till 1 pm at the district rather than noon and 4 pm at the eight relatively safer districts with over 400 positive instances in the previous ten days.
Health minister Keshab Mahanta, while declaring the initial unlocking SOP, stated Cachar, Tinsukia, Dibrugarh, Sonitpur and Nagaon districts, and in which the complete amount of cumulative cases and daily instances continue showing high amounts, will be under close eye until June 21 and when the situation doesn’t increase, harsher measures may be levied in those districts.
Inter-dist transportation service prohibit still in forceThe prohibit 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 and exemptions, which will even continue to stay in force.
All private and government workers, who’ve obtained the doses of Covid-19 vaccine, are permitted to attend workplace mandatorily in Monday.
In the event the evaluation diversification of Covid-19 reaches 5 percent or more in metropolitan areas and 10 percent or more from rural regions within 1 week, then the district magistrates worried are permitted to inform such regions as containment zones.
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 timings — by nine hours nighttime curfew first to 17 hours in a subsequent stage.