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Faridabad: Two days after Haryana reimposed lockdown, ordering that shops and shopping malls shall remain closed on Mondays and Tuesdays, the state again withdrew its August 28 order.
Haryana’s home-cum-health minister Anil Vij announced on Sunday that the state government is withdrawing its lockdown order in view of the Unlock 4.0 guidelines that forbid any form of lockdown, barring in containment zones, without permission from the Centre.
“There will be no lockdown in Haryana”, Vij tweeted.
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Faridabad: Two days after Haryana reimposed lockdown, ordering that shops and shopping malls shall remain closed on Mondays and Tuesdays, the state again withdrew its August 28 order.
Haryana’s home-cum-health minister Anil Vij announced on Sunday that the state government is withdrawing its lockdown order in view of the Unlock 4.0 guidelines that forbid any form of lockdown, barring in containment zones, without permission from the Centre.
“There will be no lockdown in Haryana”, Vij tweeted.
On August 28th, Vij had told The Indian Express that the weekly lockdown on Mondays and Tuesdays was necessary to “break the chain of ongoing surge in new cases of Coronavirus infections across the State”.
On Saturday, Haryana witnessed its biggest single day surge in new Coronavirus infections, with another 1,391 cases and nine deaths in the last 24 hours.
The state’s total Covid tally reached 61,987 cases and 670 deaths.
During the same period, 1,001 patients recovered, taking the total number of recovered patients, till date, to 50711 and recovery rate to 81.81 per cent.
While Faridabad added another 158 new cases, Gurgaon reported 124, Sonipat (75), Rewari (110), Ambala (98), Rohtak (36), Panipat (65), Karnal (140), Hisar (78), Palwal (11), Panchkula (96), Mahendragarh (19), Jhajjar (10), Bhiwani (61), Kurukshetra (75), Nuh (10), Sirsa (42), Yamunanagar (87), Fatehabad (23), Kaithal (73).