Think of week-end lockdown, longer curfew: HC
The Hindu
Government instructed to issue fresh GO within 24 hours
The Telangana High Court on Wednesday asked the State government to explore imposition of stronger restrictive measures like extending hours of night curfew or week-end lockdown to flatten the COVID-19 curve. Hearing a batch of PIL pleas on coronavirus-related issues, the HC said the government should take stock of the situation well before Saturday as extended night curfew would end by then and take a call on initiating further stringent measures to check spread of COVID-19. A bench of Chief Justice Hima Kohli and Justice B. Vijaysen Reddy instructed the government to issue a fresh Government Order within 24 hours restricting persons attending marriages and funerals. Numbers of persons attending a marriage and a funeral should not exceed 50 and 20 respectively, the bench said. The bench expressed concern over the GO issued on November 16 last year permitting congregations of 200 persons as part of COVID-19 norms. District Collectors, Commissioners of Police and heads of municipal bodies were authorised to permit such gatherings. Permitting such large number of people in the backdrop of coronavirus spreading like wildfire was not appropriate, the bench said.More Related News