Omicron alert in Maharashtra: New guidelines today in view of Christmas, holiday season
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Covid-19: The Maharashtra government will be on Friday issuing sweeping instructions that will include guidelines relating to meetings at wedding ceremonies in hotels and restaurants.
In the midst of increasing concerns over Omicron, a very contagious new variant of the Coronavirus, the Maharashtra government will be on Friday issuing a series of fresh guidelines that remember the Christmas and New Year celebrations.
The country has recently reported a steep increase in Coronavirus infection and central government data shows that Maharashtra along with Delhi is one of two regions in this country with the highest number of omicron cases.
Omicron variants, which are said to be able to undergo often and many extraordinary mutations, have made medical experts and health professionals throughout the world who care about aspects such as their transmission, vaccine barriers, although initial reports show that the variant causes a disease Not severe than the previous strain.
The worsening worries are the Christmas season and holidays that are approaching when footsteps likely to rise, raise fear of general spots turn into Covid-19 hotspots.
Experts have warned that the end of November to early January – vacation – will be a very important time for the new phase of the coronavirus pandemic which is driven by Omicron, and every activity that is not alert during the celebration season that can lead to the stripped wave of infectious diseases.
The Maharashtra government will be on Friday issuing sweeping instructions that include guidelines related to meetings at the wedding ceremony in hotels and restaurants. The Chairman of the Minister of Uddhav Thackeray held a virtual meeting on Thursday with the Covid-19 government task force, where the details of the proposed guidelines might have been discussed.
Maharashtra has issued several instructions separately in this case; Orders prohibit below part 144 Criminal Code Procedure (CRPC) remain imposed in Mumbai from December 16 to December 31, a period that includes Christmas and New Year’s Eve, forbid major meetings and parties that this year.
In addition, the commissioner of Municipal Pimpri Chinchwad, in a new order, has said that anyone who violates the state government guidelines in Covid-19 will be ordered based on section 188 of the Indian police code (IPC).
A total of 23 new cases of omicron were reported on Thursday, according to the State Health Department, and with this, the calculation of such infection in Maharashtra has now reached 88.
In Maharashtra, around 615 people recovered from infection for the last 24 hours while 17 people lost their lives with deadly viruses at the same time. With this, the number of active Covid-19 cases in the state has reached 7,897.
