Chandigarh, April 19: Close on the heels of Chandigarh and Haryana and amid rising Covid-19 cases, Punjab is likely to reimpose restrictions to contain further spread. Punjab Health Minister Vijay Singla has also called a review meeting at the Secretariat in the evening to discuss the situation.
Notably, the Chandigarh UT administration along with the Uttar Pradesh Government on Monday made the wearing of masks mandatory in public and crowded places. "Considering the increasing number of Covid cases in some of the States and UTs, all the residents of UT Chandigarh are advised to wear face masks in the crowded places", said the Chandigarh Health department in an official statement.
In UP, masks have again become mandatory in the districts of Gautam Buddh Nagar, Ghaziabad, Hapur, Meerut, Bulandshahr, Baghpat, and Lucknow.
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Several states, including Uttar Pradesh and Haryana, had earlier decided to stop penalising people for not wearing masks. The UP Government had in its order last month said that wearing masks would not be mandatory in the state from April 1.
However, now amid rising Covid-19 cases again, the Punjab Government is also likely to take similar measures to contain the spread.
Of later, a major surge has been witnessed in Covid-19 cases being reported from across Punjab. As of Monday, the total number of Covid positive cases had touched 29 in the state, which was the highest so far for the month of April.
