Chandigarh: The UT administration has imposed weekend lockdown from 10pm on Friday till 5am on Monday and reduced the limit of gatherings from 200 to 100 for outdoor and 100 to 50 for indoor functions to combat the spread of novel coronavirus.
The decision was taken during a review meeting under the chairmanship of UT administrator V P Singh Badnore on Friday.
Badnore expressed serious concern over the rising number of cases and the high fatality rate. He directed all three medical institutions to ramp up their facilities for accommodating increasing number of patients. All deaths must be specifically audited and reports sent. The Sector 48 hospital should function as an exclusive Covid hospital, he ordered.
He further directed all hospitals to store enough oxygen and adequate vaccines along with required medicines. He said mobile testing teams should be sent to temples, gurdwaras, mosques and other crowded places during festival season, so that visitors could be screened and symptomatic cases tested.
He also suggested that all shops must get their staff tested. He said action will be taken against not only the shoppers who go to markets without wearing masks but also against those shopkeepers who attend to non-wearing masks customers.