Aurangabad: Aurangabad Municipal Corporation has decided to close offline sessions for grade 1 to 8 to January 31 to avoid crowding and contain the spread of Coronavirus infection in Maharashtra.
However, physical sessions for grade 9 to 12 students were permitted, the Civic body said in the release on Wednesday.
The district government has also decided to close the resort and agriculture in rural areas here.
Also, in cases where the people infected with Covid-19 want to take advantage of home isolation facilities, it must be that their family members must be fully vaccinated, said Collector Aurangabad Sunil Chavan in the release.
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Leaves of government employees and semi-government staff have also been canceled, he said.
The decision to examine the spread of Covid-19 was taken after a meeting of members of the district assignment group and medical expert on Wednesday.
In accordance with the release, the hospital in the district was ordered to conduct a Covid-19 test of patients undergoing surgery.
Family members of Covid-19 patients patients in house isolation must also be quarantined at home, he said.
Video recordings will be held at the hotel to prevent crowding, the release says, adding that the administration has also decided to ban the parties ‘Hurda’ (meetings held by people in winter every year).
In accordance with the release, parties that manage must provide a written guarantee that the number of participants during a function will not be above 50.
They have also been instructed to inform the order that will come in their function hall, said Deputy Commissioner of Police Ujwala Bankar.
On Wednesday, the district reported 120 new cases of Coronavirus and two deaths, took the calculation of infection to 1,50,159 and the death toll became 3,658.
So far, 1,46,229 has recovered from disease, while there are currently 272 Covid-19 cases active in the district, according to official data.