No party in NCR: After Uttar Pradesh, it’s night curfew in Haryana

NEW DELHI: There were ominous signs of a fresh wave of Covid cases in the capital and its neighbourhood as both Delhi and Gurgaon on Friday reported their highest single-day increase in infections in six months.
The spike came on a day restrictions on movement returned in the NCR. Both Haryana and UP governments ordered a night curfew (11pm-5am) effective Saturday, close on the heels of Christmas and New Year gatherings being banned in Delhi. UP lifted its last night curfew on October 20 when it was 11pm-6am and there have been no restrictions since. Haryana has not had a night curfew since August 9.

The renewed restrictions mean there will no be no late-night Christmas and New Year parties across Delhi-NCR this time, abruptly cutting short the yearend bonanza for the hospitality industry that has been on the upswing since the festive season this year after being battered by the pandemic and subsequent lockdowns.
Delhi on Friday recorded 180 new Covid cases, the most in a day since June 16. In Gurgaon, daily new infections touched 48, the highest since June 6. Three new cases of Covid-19 caused by the Omicron variant were also confirmed in Delhi, taking the tally in the capital to 67. After Maharashtra, Delhi has now recorded most cases of the highly transmissible Omicron variant of SARS-CoV-2, which is suspected to be driving the spike in viral infections.