Twin capitals UT of Jammu and Kashmir, life came to a halt on Sunday as police and security forces strictly enforced a 34-hour long Covid-19 curfew which started from 8 P.M on Saturday and will remain in force till 6 A.M Monday.
After a high level meeting chaired by LG Manoj Sinha, JK administration imposed weekend curfew in Jammu and Kashmir as the cases along with fatalities have increased due to covid-19 second wave. On Sunday police had put barricades on all the important roads of Srinagar and Jammu cities and allowed only those vehicles which were connected with emergency services and essential services. Earlier on Saturday evening police vehicles fitted with public address systems made announcements in various localities of Jammu and Srinagar announcing the imposition of curfew by Saturday night itself.
On each day Jammu and Kashmir is witnessing rise in the Covid positive cases while the administration had already imposed night curfew in all the 20 districts of Jammu and Kashmir.
Meanwhile, Leh town is emerging as Covid hotspot in the union territory of Ladakh forcing the authorities to restrict BRO from hiring and transporting labourers from outside.
In the past few days, Ladakh has reported hundreds of new Covid positive cases and BRO was told on Sunday to restrict non local labourers in their quarantine centres before dispatching them to the different developmental sites in Ladakh.