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Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has appealed to the people of State to celebrate New Year with strict adherence to the social distancing and follow the COVID protocol.

The State government stated that the New Year celebration programmes will be organised only after prior permission of the District Magistrate and the District Police Chief concerned.

Few hours are left for 2020 to end and those who are planning to welcome the new year in a grand manner in the State have been advised by the government to follow all COVID related protocols. The State government has issued guidelines for New Year celebrations in its bid to contain the spread of the novel Coronavirus.

The New Year celebration programmes will be organised only after prior permission of the District Magistrate and the District Police Chief concerned. The order from Chief Secretary RK Tewari says that a large number of people were likely to gather at different places for celebrating the New Year and there were apprehensions of spread of Coronavirus. He said that the organisers of the New Year celebration programmes would be apprised of the COVID protocol and they would be responsible for its compliance.