Night curfew in J&K as Covid cases grow

Night curfew in J&K as Covid cases grow

Srinagar: The government on Wednesday announced that night curfew will be imposed in Jammu and Kashmir in view of Covid surge.
An official order said that Chief Secretary (Chairman State Executive Committee) along with the ACS (Health and Medical Education) and other senior Health functionaries ordered that there would be complete restrictions on non-essential movement in the entire J&K from 9 pm to 6 am till further orders.
This comes after above 400 cases were recorded in a day with Jammu seeing the highest spike.
Divisional commissioner Kashmir PK Pole said that the administration is fully prepared to tackle any situation arising out of surge in the Covid-19 cases.
He appealed to the people to cooperate with the administration in order to prevent third wave of Covid-19 in Jammu and Kashmir.
Pole also said that electricity to hospitals especially, where Covid positive patients are being treated, is provided through special electricity feeders.
“If there is a breakdown even for a minute, power backup has also been placed in hospitals. It is being ensured that patients do not face any difficulty due to snowfall,” he said.
He said that people do face many difficulties due to snowfall, but administration is trying to provide every basic facility to the people under these difficult circumstances.
“It is not possible to work on all the difficulties in time as in many areas roads get blocked, there is irregular supply of electricity and water due to heavy snowfall, but administration is trying its best to restore all the facilities immediately so that people do not suffer,” he said.
Pole also said that electricity in the areas where it has got disrupted due to fault in transformers will also be restored soon. “In urban areas, the damaged transformers will be replaced within 12 hours while in rural areas, it will take maximum of 48 hours to replace the damaged transformers,” he said.
He said that maximum government offices remained functional today, while essential service employees are on duty and all the control rooms are open 24*7 to facilitate the general public in case of any emergency. With KNS inputs

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