Concernedover the second wave of the covid19 in the state and rising number of cases inthe district, the Jalandhar DC Ghanshyam Thori exercising his rights under CrPC 1973 Section144 and National Disaster Management Act,2005, has ordered night curfew from 11 pm to 5 am starting from today onwards.
Thecurfew has been announced in order to prepare an integrated management plan fortreatment of the disease at government and private facilities.
Thedecision has come after chief secretary Vini Mahajan today chaired a high-levelmeeting with the DC’s of Punjab to review the covid situation in Punjab. “It isalso expected that by evening that government might announce other decisions tocontrol the spread”, say sources.