Ministers suggest full lockdown in home districts of Maharashtra: Covid19

  • | Monday | 10th May, 2021

Exactly a year ago, Patil who is also the state NCP president, was praised for the containment zone model, which took the Covid cases in the district to zero in the first wave. 

Amid the Covid-19 case surge, cabinet ministers and elected representatives are mounting pressure on the district administration to impose a complete lockdown in their respective areas.

The 7-11 am relaxation for people to attend to essential requirements is being perceived as a hurdle to curbing movement and breaking the virus chain.

Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar last week declared a complete lockdown in his hometown and Assembly constituency of Baramati in Pune district. It came with a warning of extending these measures across the Pune district.

The call for a hard decision was also voiced by Energy Minister Nitin Raut, the guardian minister of Nagpur. He said, “To tackle the spurt in Covid-19 cases, we have to ensure harsher restrictions like sealing our district borders. We will have to stop the movement of people from other districts or states in the city and rural Nagpur. We will have to impose a complete lockdown for eight days.”

Although CM Uddhav Thackeray had announced restrictions on April 22 and extended them till May 15, the rise in Covid cases and increase in deaths have prompted the district leadership and legislators to seek stricter restrictions.

Minister for Water Resources Jayant Patil said, “The statistics emerging from our home constituency are alarming and we cannot negotiate when it comes to saving the lives of people. We have enforced complete lockdown for the next eight days in our district.”

 

 

 

 


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