The Chandigarh Administration on Friday decided to remove the restriction to limit the number of persons attending social events in the city.
Apart from this, the Administration has decided to send a proposal to the Central Government for introducing a scheme, where in the event of death of any employee engaged in Covid duty, an amount of Rs 50 lakh will be given as compensation. At present, the grant is available only for health employees.
The decisions were taken during the meeting held under Punjab Governor and UT Administrator VP Singh Badnore on Friday to review the situation related to Covid-19 in the city.
While the Administration decided that the guidelines issued by the Central Government for containment of Covid-19 will be applicable to Chandigarh, there will be no limit in the number of persons attending social events.
Manoj Parida, Adviser to Administrator said that while the restrictions to limit the number of people has been removed, strict Covid protocol will be followed, as per the SOPs issued by Government of India.
The Administration has decided to open colleges from February 11 and both online and offline teaching will continue. As already decided, the schools will reopen from February 1 for classes from VI to VIII, Parida said.
During the meeting, Badnore directed the Administration to send a proposal to the Centre for covering other employees too under the compensation cover of Rs 50 lakh in the event of death of any employee engaged in COVID duty. The city had reported 27 fresh COVID-19 cases on Friday pushing the total number of cases to 20,882.No fatality was reported in the last 24 hours and the death toll remained unchanged at 334 in the union territory, according to the Chandigarh Health Department’s evening bulletin.
The number of active COVID-19 cases in Chandigarh stood at 159. As many as 26 patients were discharged after recovery, taking the total number of cured persons to 20389. Among 27 fresh cases, 17 were male and 10 were female residents.
Till now, 2.14 lakh samples have been taken for testing. 1142 tests were conducted in the last 24 hours and a report of 135 was awaited, the bulletin stated.
