Punjab govt eases Covid-19 curbs, lifts weekend curfew

Doing away with many of the Covid restrictions, Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh Friday ordered the lifting of weekend and night time curfew within the state. He additionally allowed gatherings of 100 individuals indoors and 200 individuals outside from Monday.
The step by the federal government comes after the state’s Covid positivity fee slid to 0.4 per cent.

Singh additionally ordered the opening of bars, cinema halls, eating places, spas, swimming swimming pools, gyms, malls, sports activities complexes, museums and zoos and many others., topic to workers and guests having taken at the very least 1 dose every of the Covid-19 vaccine.
Though faculties will proceed to stay closed, schools, teaching centres and all different establishments of upper studying are allowed, topic to a certificates having been submitted saying that each one instructing, non-teaching workers and college students have been given at the very least one dose of the vaccines, at the very least 2 weeks in the past.
Singh, who reviewed the state’s Covid-19 scenario just about, stated that one other overview might be achieved on July 20. He additionally directed officers to make sure strict use of masks and directed the DGP to challan political leaders violating Covid norms whereas holding rallies and protest conferences.
During the assembly, Heath Secretary Hussan Lal stated that 4 districts within the state have proven positivity of 1 or lower than 1 per cent, nevertheless, including that districts corresponding to Ludhiana, Amritsar, Gurdaspur, Hoshiarpur, Firozpur and Ropar want monitoring.

Referring to circumstances of Mucormycosis (Black Fungus), which has been reported in 623 sufferers as of July 8, Singh requested the well being division to work out a proposal for supporting and serving to within the therapy of such sufferers. Of the 623 circumstances, 67 are from exterior the state, Lal knowledgeable throughout the assembly, including that 337 sufferers have been present process therapy and 154 have been discharged, whereas 51 sufferers died.
‘Step up genome sequencing’
The chief minister additionally requested involved departments to step up the Whole Genome Sequencing (WGS) to expeditiously determine circumstances of recent Covid variant and to quick observe the mission for execution of the MoU with ICMR for Regional Institute of Virology, Mohali.
Though no recent circumstances of Delta Plus variant (other than two reported earlier primarily based on May sampling) have been recognized within the state, Singh directed that WGS lab at GMCH Patiala, developing with the help of PATH, should turn out to be purposeful by the tip of this month.