With the demands for lifting the curfews on weekends and the odd-even rules for shops
and shops, the Delhi Disaster Management Authority (DDMA) will meet on Thursday
(January 27 2022) to discuss the situation of pandemics in Delhi.
Delhi’s Covid-19’s management body, DDMA’s meeting, being presided by Lieutenant
Governor Anil Baijal will begin at 12:30 p.m. today.
Delhi, the Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal is also likely to attend the meeting, which will
consider relaxations that might be granted in the light of a positive change of the situation
with Covid-19 in the Capital.
The previous Friday, the Delhi government proposed lifting the curfew for weekends and
ending the odd-even scheme to opening stores in the city after the situation at Covid-19
improved.
Lieutenant Governor Baijal recommended keeping the current restrictions until the
conditions improve further.
The LG office approved the government’s plan to permit private offices to operate with a
the staff of 50 per cent.
Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia had stated that the decision to relax restrictions was
made because of the decline in the amount of Covid cases in the city and to ensure the
quality of life of the population is not impacted.
“Now, since the cases are going down and it also seems that the peak has gone, we want
to ensure that the public’s livelihood continues smoothly.
We have proposed to do away with the weekend curfew and also with the odd-even
arrangement of the opening of shops in markets,” Sisodia has said.
Are schools set to Delhi be reopened soon?
On Wednesday, Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia said the DDMA would discuss the
matter of reopening schools.
Sisodia said the Delhi government would be recommending the opening of schools in the
the capital city of India at the DDMA meeting since it has become imperative to avoid further
harm to the emotional and social health of children said Sisodia.
Delhi’s deputy CM stressed that online education could not replace traditional instruction,
noting that the government had shut down schools because it was inappropriate for
children. Still, extreme care is now affecting students.
Sisodia also stated that the Covid-19 pandemic-related school closings have not just
impacted their education but also their psychological health.
“During COVID, our priority was the safety of children. But, as some studies have revealed
that COVID isn’t as harmful to children; it’s essential to open the schools again because
now is the right time to prepare for examinations and preparations for the same,” Sisodia
said.
Delhi traders demonstrate the elimination of curbs.
In the meantime, merchants in various regions of the capital city were also protesting
about the regulations and demanded that the restrictions be lifted, including the ones
imposed on stores selling non-essential goods being permitted to be open on alternate
days based on an odd-even system.
Covid-19 curbs and cases are in Delhi.
The capital city is subject to a weekend of curfew that lasts from 10 pm on Friday through
Monday at 5 am.
DDMA decided to institute the curfew on weekends in January due to the increasing
some COVID-19-related cases in the city.
The DDMA had also put in place additional restrictions, including closing all private offices
that deal with non-essential services. The curfew for nighttime on the week is already in
place between 10 pm and 5 am.
The nation’s capital city recorded 7,498 cases of COVID-19 and 29 deaths within one day.
The positivity rate climbed only marginally to 10.59 per cent as per the health
department’s statistics on Wednesday.
