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Dehradun DM orders complete lockdown in areas of Mussoorie
Amid rising cases of COVID-19, the Dehradun authorities have declared Galway Cottage and St. George s School in Mussoorie partially as containment zones. According to the Dehradun district magistrate, only a part of the school premises has been tagged a containment zone.
In the official notification, the DM ordered the closure of all shops and offices in the vicinity, while the sale of essential items will be arranged by the district administration.
In a statement, St. George s College said that the district administration had barricaded the school hospital area alone as per the government protocol and declared the hospital a containment zone. There have been no other containment zones declared within the campus, the school said.Â
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Migrants to key goods, how railways met lockdown challenge
Dipak K Dash / TNN / Updated: Dec 26, 2020, 11:54 IST
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NEW DELHI: Barely days after the government declared complete lockdown in March suspending operation of air, road and rail travel due to the pandemic, Indian Railways got a unique task to transport a batch of swab samples from Delhi to Indore for testing at a lab within a set time-line. The national transporter sent these samples with a guard deployed in a freight train and there was complete monitoring till the samples were collected by the staff of the designated laboratory.