UP Lockdown: Yogi Govt Imposes Complete Lockdown On Sunday

The Yogi Adityanath Government has announced a complete lockdown on Sunday in Uttar Pradesh amid the rise in Covid cases. The restrictions will come into effect at 8 PM Saturday night and remain in place till Monday at 7 AM.

The govt has said that people without masks will pay a Rs 1000 fine if caught for the first time and if the same person continues to flout Covid guidelines and is seen without a mask, he/she will have to pay a heavy fine of Rs 10,000.

The Yogi government further said that all markets, offices, gyms, auditoriums, and cinema halls will be closed. All government and private offices will be closed and a massive sanitization program will be carried out across all 75 districts. Essential services have been exempted from the lockdown.

It may be noted that UP is one of the 10 states that have shown a steep rise in daily new COVID-19 cases accounting for 79.10 percent of the new infections. Uttar Pradesh had on Thursday registered 22,439 fresh COVID-19 cases, its highest-single day spike in cases since the outbreak of the pandemic in 2020.

Yesterday, the administration had revised timings for night curfew in ten districts amidst the worsening COVID-19 situation. The curfew will now begin at 8 pm and end at 7 am. Earlier, the curfew timings were from 9 pm to 6 am.

Presently, night curfew is in force in Lucknow, Kanpur City, Gautam Buddha Nagar, Prayagraj, Varanasi, Ghaziabad, Meerut, Gorakhpur, Shravasti, and Moradabad.

The Uttar Pradesh government has also closed all schools till May 15 and postponed board exams.