Tripura lockdown information: As the Coronavirus in Tripura rose to two,094, the state authorities on Tuesday made up our minds to impose a week-long lockdown in spaces bordering Bangladesh from Friday to include the COVID-19 outbreak, minister Ratan Lal Nath stated. Further, the verdict to increase the lockdown to all of the state will likely be taken after assessing the location in per week. The lockdown will likely be in power in rural spaces inside one kilometre of the Indo-Bangladesh border and inside part a kilometre from the border in city spaces, he stated. Also Read – MP Lockdown News: ‘No Religious Event in Public Places’, Home Department Directs District Collectors
“Only grocery and medical shops and essential services will open in these areas. People will be allowed to move for emergencies like need for hospitalization,” he advised journalists. Also Read – Bihar Lockdown News: Shutdown in State From July 16-31, 75 Found COVID Positive at BJP Headquarters in Patna
He stated Chief Secretary Manoj Kumar has issued a round bringing up that social and political actions will stay suspended, and personal and government-run auditoriums like Agartala Town Hall, Rabindra Shata Varshiki Bhawan, Nazrul Kalakshetra, Mukta Dhara will stay closed all over the lockdown. Also Read – No Migrant Children to be Struck Off School Rolls Amid COVID-19 Lockdown: HRD Ministry
About social purposes and actions, Nath stated all actions together with political programmes will stay suspended all over the duration.
“There is no alternative to this ban as we have to save the lives of people. Marriage ceremonies can be organised with a maximum of 50 people with appropriate social distancing norms and ‘shradh’ can be organised only with 20 people,” Nath stated.
He stated containment zones within the state have higher to 59 on Tuesday.
(With company inputs)
