Chandigarh too may impose weekend lockdowns

Chandigarh, July 20 (IANS) After Punjab, Union Territory of Chandigarh is planning to impose weekend curfews to prevent the further spread of coronavirus.UT Adviser Manoj Parida said on Monday that he had written to the Chief Secretaries of Punjab and Haryana to agree to the Chandigarh proposal for such curfew in the tricity during weekends."Weekend curfews only in Chandigarh will not be effective, unless the same is simultaneously imposed in Mohali and Panchkula," he wrote.At a high-level review meeting here, presided over by Chandigarh Administrator V.P. Singh Badnore, who is also the Governor of Punjab, the Deputy Commissioner of Mohali said that it has 184 positive cases. Chandigarh has 217 active cases. The Deputy Commissioner of Panchkula said it had 122 cases.
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