UP To Go Into Covid Lockdown On Weekends, Night Curfew Continues

A night curfew of 8 pm to 7 am is already in place in Uttar Pradesh.

Uttar Pradesh has decided to go into a lockdown every weekend as a measure to curb Covid-19 infections spreading rapidly in the state. There will be a complete shut down on Saturdays and Sundays even as the night curfew continues on weekdays. The decision was taken today during a meeting chaired by Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath to review the situation in the state in the wake of the spiraling cases of the disease. A night curfew of 8 pm to 7 am is already in place. It came on a day Uttar Pradesh reported 28,211 new Covid-19 cases and 167 deaths, taking the state's overall figure to nearly 8.8 lakh infections and 10,000 fatalities. The Uttar Pradesh government's move also came hours after the Supreme Court put on hold the lockdown ordered yesterday by the Allahabad High Court in Lucknow, Prayagraj, Varanasi, Kanpur, and Gorakhpur till April 26.