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There will be a complete lockdown on every Sunday in Madhya Pradesh. During the lockdown on every Sunday, all markets, offices and establishments will remain completely closed. However, this order will not be applicable on the milk parlours, medical stores, hospitals and other emergency services.
There will be a restriction mainly on the unnecessary movements of people.Official release said that the violation of lockdown will be punishable under section 188. State Home Minister Dr Narottam Mishra has said in a tweet message that state governments are controlling the corona infection by the ‘Kill Corona’ campaign, but the total lockdown is being needed every Sunday in view of the increasing number of COVID-19 patients.
The COVID-19 case count in Madhya Pradesh climbed to 17 thousand 201 with addition of 544 new cases in the last 24 hours. The death toll in the state has risen to 644. The state has 1 thousand 518 active containment zones. A total of 198 persons were discharged from hospitals in the last 24 hours taking the number of the recovered cases to 12,679.
Today being Sunday, Tamil Nadu also observes a total lockdown throughout the state. It is aimed at avoiding overcrowding in public spaces.
This is the second successive Sunday this month that the whole state of Tamil Nadu goes under complete lockdown. The Government has made it clear that all the Sundays in July will have an intensified lockdown as it is observed that relaxations on Sundays lead to crowding outside, triggering fears of eruption of new Covid-19 clusters. However, during weekdays, unlock-2 is in vogue except in Madurai.
The total Covid-19 infection in Tamil Nadu has surpassed one lakh thirty four thousand cases with 3,965 people confirmed positive yesterday. Meanwhile, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Edappadi Palaniswamy has asked the External Affairs Ministry to facilitate the repatriation of over 40 stranded fishermen from the state from Iran.
In a letter to the External Affairs Minister Dr S Jaishankar, he said 681 fishermen have been repatriated safely to the state by the Indian Naval Ship INS Jalashwa on 1st of this month. He has said around 40 more are left behind due to lack of space in the ship.