NE NEWS SERVICE
AHMEDABAD, JAN 15
Even as fresh cases of coronavirus are on the decline in Gujarat, Chief Minister Vijay Rupani on Friday asserted that night curfew will remain in place in four major cities of the state for the next 15 days as a precautionary measure.
મા નર્મદાની પરિક્રમા કરવાથી પૂણ્ય મળે છે. હવે તો સૌરાષ્ટ્રમાં મા નર્મદા પોતે પરિક્રમા કરવા નીકળ્યા છે. pic.twitter.com/G95jkrVg50
— Vijay Rupani (Modi Ka Parivar) (@vijayrupanibjp) January 15, 2021
While urging people to be patient and cooperate with the authorities for some more days, Rupani said the viral infection has come under control due to the night curfew imposed in November 2020 in Ahmedabad, Surat, Vadodara, and Rajkot.
આ દેશ અનાદિકાળથી પ્રકૃતિનો ઉપાસક રહ્યો છે. આપણા ઋષિઓએ સૂર્યની સાધના કરી છે. મોઢેરાનુ સુર્ય મંદિર એ ગુજરાત અને સૂર્ય વચ્ચેના આઘ્યાત્મિક સંબંધને ચરિતાર્થ કરે છે. ગુજરાત આજે આ ઉર્જાના અખૂટ સ્ત્રોતનો ઉપયોગ કરીને પર્યાવરણનું જતન પણ કરી રહ્યું છે અને એનર્જીનું ઉત્પાદન પણ કરી રહ્યું છે. pic.twitter.com/wdAOlzPYFt
— Vijay Rupani (Modi Ka Parivar) (@vijayrupanibjp) January 14, 2021
“The night curfew after 10 pm will continue for 15 more days in all four cities. There will be no relaxation for now, as there is a drastic decrease in new cases (because of curfew). People need to have patience and cooperate with the authorities,” he told reporters in Jamnagar.
A decision about lifting the curfew will be taken at an appropriate juncture, he said.
Following a sudden spike in fresh coronavirus cases after Diwali last year, the state government had imposed a night curfew in four major cities of Gujarat in November 2020.
Earlier, people were barred from venturing out between 9 pm till 6 am every day in these cities.
However, in a minor respite, the timing was recently revised to 10 pm till 6 am.
Notably, when the curfew was imposed, 1,500 to 1,600 fresh cases of coronavirus were emerging every day in Gujarat and the majority of these infections were from the four cities.
As of Thursday, Gujarat’s COVID-19 tally stood at 2,54,314 cases, including 4,357 fatalities.
