"covid-19-lockdown"

The state has been rattled by explosive growth in its COVID-19 incidence since the beginning of April.

Warangal Urban district collector Rajeev Gandhi Hanumanthu and Warangal police commissioner Tarun Joshi visited several localities under the GWMC limits and directed the police personnel to strictly adhere to the SOPs while enforcing the lockdown.

All beaches, parks, gardens will be closed for the public on all days and gathering and congregation in any form will be strictly prohibited.

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The state government have imposed extensive COVID-19 curbs in addition to measures like a weekend lockdown and night curfew till May 15.

Religious places will remain closed, and people are requested to carry out religious activities at home during the lockdown.

The Pinarayi Vijayan government decided to clamp the complete shutdown in the wake of severe spike in the positive cases.

The vaccination drive against COVID-19 in the state will continue in all districts from Monday to Saturday, during the lockdown period.

Earlier, weekend curfew was enforced in nine districts of the state.

The state clocked a 50 per cent positivity rate on Thursday when out of 5,910 samples tested for coronavirus, 3,019 returned positive, health department data showed.

Presently, the weekend lockdown in the state begins at Friday 8 pm and ends at Monday 7 am.

Goa on Tuesday reported 2,110 fresh cases and 31 deaths, taking the tally to 81,908 and the toll to 1,086.

The government has allowed sale of essential goods and continuity of essential services.

The District Collector informed that 1,500 people are in hospital and 6,300 are in home isolation and on Tuesday around 1000 samples tested positive out of 6500 samples.

The government decided to impose a 14-day lockdown following the recommendation of the Technical Advisory Committee on COVID-19 to contain the spread of the virus.

The lockdown imposed on April 19 night will now continue till 5 AM on May 3, he said.

Though the Kerala State Road Transport Corporation (KSRTC) buses operated service, the number of passengers was very less in majority of districts due to virus scare.

Neighbouring Thailand is fighting its worst wave of the illness but has not imposed a national lockdown this year so far.

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Puducherry reported 4,692 active cases of Covid-19 till yesterday, according to Union Health Ministry.