Palghar to shut for five days with 300 Covid-19 cases in 3 days

MUMBAI: A five-days complete lockdown has been declared in Palghar city from Friday after 100-plus Covid cases were detected in the last three days.
The lockdown will see all shops and markets, including fish and meat, completely shut. Medical, dairy and flour mills will be allowed to function. All industrial units, except those manufacturing essential products, will be shut. Restaurants engaged in home delivery will also be shut.
The lockdown will be relaxed for a few hours on Independence Day (Saturday) to allow people to hoist flags by maintaining social distancing and donning masks.
During the shutdown, all private vehicles will not be allowed to be on the roads. Petrol pumps cannot sell fuel to private vehicles.Banks and post offices will be open with tokens given to customers.
The district's total count of Covid-positive patients touched 18,918 on Thursday , of which rural Palghar has 4,935 cases.