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Haryana extends Covid-19 restrictions till July 26 with more relaxations
As part of the new guidelines, the government has provided more relaxations including extending the timings of restaurants, bars and gymnasiums. The night curfew will now be imposed from 11pm to 5am instead of 10 pm to 5 am on all days of the week.
The Haryana government on Sunday extended the ongoing coronavirus disease (Covid-19) restrictions in the state till July 26 to keep a check on the spread of the viral disease.
As part of the new guidelines, the government has provided more relaxations including extending the timings of restaurants, bars and gymnasiums. The night curfew will now be imposed from 11pm to 5am instead of 10 pm to 5 am on all days of the week.
“Now after duly considering the fact although the Covid-19 positivity rate and the number of new Covid-19 positive cases have declined, so as to continue the preventive and precautionary measures to contain the pandemic, in exercise of the powers conferred under Section 22 (2) (h) of the Disaster Management Act, 2005, the undersigned in my capacity as chairperson, state executive committee hereby extends the Mahamari Alert-Surakshit Haryana for another week, i.e, from 19/07/2021 (5am onwards) to 26/07/2021 (till 5am),” an official order read.
Here are the new relaxations provided in modification of earlier orders:
> Restaurants and bars (including those in hotels and malls) can now open from 10am to 11pm with 50% seating capacity and in adherence with Covid-appropriate behaviour such as sanitisation, social distancing.
> Home delivery from hotels, restaurants and fast food joints is allowed upto 11pm.
> Gyms can now remain open from 6am to 9pm with 50% capacity. Here too, all Covid related norms such as sanitisation, social distancing will have to be followed
> Club houses/restaurants/bars of golf courses can remain open from 10am to 11pm with 50% seating capacity with strict adherence to Covid-appropriate behaviour. Members or visitors shall be allowed to play in Golf courses by the management in a staggered order in order to avoid overcrowding.
The Haryana government also said that relaxations which were introduced in earlier orders will continue.
Some of these are as follows:
> Only 100 people will be allowed to attend marriages and funerals while upto 200 people will be allowed in open spaces.
> Swimming pools are open for only those athletes/swimmers which are competing or practicing for an event.
> Colleges and universities are only allowed to open for doubt clearing sessions, practical classes in labs, practical exams and offline exams.
> Cinema halls (inside malls and standalone) can only open with a maximum 50% seating capacity.
Haryana has till now recorded nearly 7.7 million cases and 9,593 deaths due to the Covid-19 disease. The daily tally on Saturday continued to remain below 50 as 41 new cases were registered in the last 24 hours. The active cases in the state have dropped to 823 and the recoveries are over 759,000.
As the overall pandemic situation in the state has been improving, the government decided to reopen schools for classes 9-12 from July 16 after a gap of almost three months. However, it has not been made mandatory for students to attend offline classes and those who wish to will have to get a written consent from their parents.
