![]() ![]() Jharkhand is under Covid-19 lockdown-like restrictions from April 22 till May 6.Ĭhhattisgarh has allowed district collectors to extend lockdown, which was to end on May 5, till May 15. The lockdown will remain in force in the state till 5 am on May 10.Earlier, a weekend curfew was enforced in nine districts.Īmid rising cases, a 14-day lockdown has been imposed in the entire state from May 5 till May 19. Haryana is under a seven-day long lockdown from May 3. This comes weeks after it obtained from the Supreme Court a stay on an Allahabad High Court order to impose a weeklong lockdown in five districts.Įxtending the Covid-19 curfew in the state until May 15, Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan on Thursday called upon the people to follow the public curfew and break the spread of the virus.Ĭhouhan also announced free treatment for the poor and the needy for Covid-19 through the Ayushman Bharat scheme. The Uttar Pradesh government on Wednesday extended Covid-19 restrictions across the state till 7 am on May 10. Punjab has imposed extensive covid-19 curbs, in addition to measures like a weekend lockdown and a night curfew which will be in force till May 15.Ĭhief Minister Amarinder Singh on Wednesday ruled out a complete lockdown in the state, noting that the restrictions currently in place were more stringent than lockdown conditions in many other states. The total cases stand at over 49.96 lakh with over 74,000 fatalities. The announcement, by Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, came within hours of the Patna High Court ordered the government to declare a lockdown, warning that otherwise the court may step in.Īfter reporting a massive uptick in new cases at the beginning of Covid’s second wave, the state has now been reporting a decline with new cases further dropping by over 8,000 on Friday. The Bihar government on May 4 imposed a statewide lockdown till May 15 in the wake of rising Covid-19 cases. Rajasthan reported 18,231 new COVID-19 cases and 164 fatalities on Friday, pushing the state’s infection tally to 7,20,799 and the death toll to 5,346. ![]() The Rajasthan government announced a strict lockdown between May 10 and 24, and Goa Chief Minister Pramod Sawant said a decision on enforcing a lockdown in the state will be taken in another two or three days. Given the situation, Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi, in a letter, to allot 1,000 MT of imported liquid medical oxygen, apart from demanding tankers, PSA plants, oxygen concentrators and ventilators to the state. The state also recorded a positivity rate of 26.64 per cent on Friday. Kerala’s active cases with over 3.75 lakh are the third highest in the country. The report, which surveyed 2,345 adults aged between 16-75, underlined this trend, and showed the number of people travelling into work multiple days a week was down on pre-pandemic levels.įor example, more than two-thirds of people travelled into work more than three days a week pre-pandemic, compared to just more than half in November 2022.The state’s earlier restrictions - preventing unnecessary travel and reducing attendance in offices– had failed to reduce its caseload. The Covid-19 lockdown, which saw many workers forced to work from home, has had a significant impact on working practices with an increasing number of people opting for hybrid working. By November 2022, all restrictions had been removed. There was still a legal requirement to self-isolate during November 2021 and the omicron variant was spreading through the UK during the latter part of the survey work. The figure remained static at 32 per cent between November 2021 and November 2022 despite workers being under more Covid restrictions in 2021. The “Our Changing Travel” report, which was carried out by Ipsos for the Department for Transport, looked at post-pandemic commuting habits, and found the number of people travelling into work had fallen from 47 per cent in the three months before the pandemic, to 32 per cent in the years following 2020. Just 32 per cent of staff travelled into work five days a week according to the latest figures, exactly the same percentage as a year earlier.Ī new government report looking into changing travel choices post-pandemic revealed that the proportion of people commuting five days a week remained exactly the same between 20, despite fewer Covid restrictions. ![]()
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