'One-day lockdown to be imposed in Indore, Bhopal and Jabalpur on Mar 21'

Bhopal, Mar 20: A one-day lockdown will be imposed on Sunday, March 21 in Indore, Bhopal , and Jabalpur in the wake of rising COVID-19 cases, Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan said on Saturday.

 

 

The decision was taken in a review meeting chaired by chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan on Friday. It was also decided that all schools and colleges in these three cities will remain closed till March 31.

 

 

 

These three cities have been chosen because the positivity rate is more than 5 per cent here. Indore and Bhopal have been under night curfew since March 15 (which is in place from 10pm to 6am). Only essential services - ration shops and eateries - are allowed to function during this period. Authorities ordered the closure of shops and establishments in Jabalpur, Ujjain, Ratlam, Chhindwara and other regions from 10 pm to 6am.

 

 

The state on Friday logged its highest single-day spike of the year 2021 with 1,140 new COVID-19 disease cases and seven related fatalities, taking the caseload and death toll to 2,73,097 and 3,901 respectively. Friday’s figures have also been the highest since late December last year.