Intensified measures taken in Erode
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Motorists were fined for violating lockdown rules in Erode on Saturday.
Closure of shops selling provisions and groceries by 10 a.m. and intensified vehicle checks by the police led to arterial roads wearing a deserted look after the State government’s intensified COVID-19 lockdown measures to curb the spread of virus were enforced in the district on Saturday.
All the shops selling vegetables, provisions, meat and fish were closed by 10 a.m.
Roadside shops outside Uzhavar Sandhai and in other parts of the city were not allowed to function. Only medical shops and petrol bunks functioned as usual.
Coimbatore: People crowded grocery shops, vegetable and fish markets, and ATMs by flouting Covid-19 precautionary measures on Sunday to buy and stock things ahead of the total lockdown, which would come into effect from Monday, despite the government making it clear that the shops selling essentials items would be allowed to function for limited hours during the period.
This irresponsible behaviour from the public comes at a time when the daily spike in Covid-19 cases is touching new highs and many battling for their lives.
It was to contain the virus that the state government announced full lockdown from May 10 to 24. To ensure supply of essential commodities to the citizens, the government had permitted grocery shops, confectionaries and fish and meat shops to function from 6am to noon. As such there was no reason for people to resort to panic buying.
Sunday lockdown total in Coimbatore
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Around 400 police personnel deployed in one shift in city limits
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Around 400 police personnel deployed in one shift in city limits
An overcast sky complemented a completely shut Coimbatore on Sunday morning, as the State government’s tightened COVID-19 restriction barred all activity, except essential services.
The places that usually saw heavy movement of people and vehicles, including the Ukkadam wholesale and retail fish markets, the retail vegetable markets, T.K. Market off Raja Street, Gandhipuram 8th Street Market, Ukkadam Ramar Kovil Street market or the farmers’ markets (Uzhavar Sandhai) remained shut. In front of downed shutters or behind closed doors were a few traders who used the opportunity to rearrange goods or clean premises.
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Udhagamandalam: The number of active Covid-19 cases in the Nilgiris has increased fourfold in the past 30 days to 266 on Thursday, from 61 on March 15.
District collector J Innocent Divya said the Nilgiris too had been witnessing a surge in Covid-19 cases, and the main contributors were the people with a travel history to neighbouring districts.
The district logged 39 new cases on the day, taking the tally to 9,065, of which 8,748 have recovered from the infection so far. Presently, there are seven containment zones in the district.
The positivity rate in the Nilgiris, which has done 3, 92,742 Covid tests, stands at 3%. On an average, 1,250 people are subjected to testing a day. As far as vaccination drive is concerned, 98,144 people have been inoculated till date.