Lockdown

Amid Surging COVID-19 Cases In Delhi, Satyendar Jain Says Lockdown Not A Solution

Delhi Health Minister Satyendar Jain on Saturday said that lockdown is not a solution to deal with rising coronavirus infections. “There is no possibility of lockdown. There has already been a lockdown and there was a logic behind it. At that time, no one knew how the virus spreads. It was then said that there …

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Madhya Pradesh Imposes Sunday Curfew In 5 More Districts As Covid-19 Cases Rise

Amid the rising coronavirus cases in the country, the Madhya Pradesh government has decided to extent Sunday Lockdown to five more districts as the state sees a spike in its daily covid cases, according to reports. It has been reported that the state government has decided to impose Sunday lockdown in Vidisha, Ujjain, Gwalior, Narsinghpur, …

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Lockdown In Maharashtra, Punjab: Restrictions Imposed On Holi Celebrations

The second wave of Covid-19 across the country is raising alarms in states like Maharashtra and Punjab which saw the highest number of cases in a single day 31,855 on Wednesday. However, all across the country, nine out of ten districts with the highest caseloads in the country are currently from Maharashtra (Bengaluru Urban is …

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A Year Of ‘Janta Curfew’: When Indians Stayed Home For 14 Hours

On March 19, last year Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced that a ‘Janta Curfew’ would be in place on March 22 for 14 hours as India witnessed a surge in the daily cases of coronavirus disease (Covid-19). Today, India marks the first anniversary of ‘Janta Curfew’ announced by Prime Minister Modi in his address to …

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Is New Covid-19 Mutations The Reason Behind Maharashtra Spike? Here’s The Story So Far

In the past week, Maharashtra has seen a surge in cases of Covid-19, with 5,210 new cases reported on Monday. This comes at a time when two new variants of the virus were discovered in samples in the Vidarbha region of the state. More than 2,400 cases of Covid-19 have been reported since 15 February …

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Covid-19: Three Maharashtra Cities Likely To Face Stricter Curbs

According to government sources, the Maharashtra government may impose a stricter lockdown in Yavatmal, Amravati and Akola cities of Vidarbha region of the state “at any moment” in view of the Covid-19 situation there. Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray and his deputy Ajit Pawar discussed the issue on Thursday morning and the step is likely to …

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A Year After Wuhan Lockdown: Day Which Caged The World Into Lockdown

A year ago, a notice was sent at 2 a.m. to people on smartphones in Wuhan which announced the world’s first coronavirus lockdown that would last 76 days. Residents in the central Chinese city where the virus was first found were jogging and practising tai chi in a fog-shrouded park next to the mighty Yangtze …

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