Covid surge in Delhi: All private employees directed to work from home

As a precautionary measure, all the private offices in the city have been asked to remain shut and the employees have been instructed to work from home. Apart from this, all restaurants and bars will remain closed, only takeaway orders will be allowed.

New Delhi:The Delhi Disaster Management Authority (DDMA) on Tuesday issued guidelines amidst the increasing cases of Corona in the national capital. As a precautionary measure, all the private offices in the city have been asked to remain shut and the employees have been instructed to work from home. Apart from this, all restaurants and bars will remain closed, only takeaway orders will be allowed.

Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal addressed a press conference today indicating there may be more restrictions in the pipeline given the huge number of cases the national capital has been reporting especially in the last week.

On Monday, the DDMA meeting was chaired by Lieutenant Governor Anil Baijal while Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, his deputy Manish Sisodia, Health Minister Satyendar Jain, Revenue Minister Kailash Gehlot, Chief Secretary Vijay Dev and other health department officials were present in the meeting.

Earlier, the eateries and bars in the capital were allowed to run with 50 per cent capacity to curb the spread of coronavirus. The DDMA in its previous meeting, held last week, had decided to impose a weekend curfew in Delhi to avoid people crowding the markets and public places. Currently, weekend and night curfews are imposed in Delhi as per the Graded Response Action Plan (GRAP).

As many as 15,68,896 people have been infected with COVID-19 infection in Delhi so far, according to the medical bulletin released on Monday. The active caseload has gone up to 65,806 in Delhi which is the highest May 15 last year. On May 15, Delhi's active caseload stood at 66,295.

As many as 17 persons have succumbed to the coronavirus infection in the national capital on Sunday, taking the cumulative death toll at 25,177 at present, reads the bulletin on Monday. However, a total of 14,076 people have recovered from COVID-19 in the past 24 hours, taking the total number of recoveries to 14,77,913 in the national capital.

Presently, the cumulative positivity rate stands at 4.68 per cent while the case fatality rate is 1.60 per cent. Meanwhile, Delhi has administered 25,030 beneficiaries with the COVID-19 vaccine in the past 24 hours, while a total of 2,75,22,072 beneficiaries have been given COVID-19 vaccines so far in the national capital.

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