Jammu: The Jammu and Kashmir administration has announced the imposition of a 34-hour curfew from 8 am on Saturday night amid rising cases of Coronavirus infection. Jammu and Kashmir Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha tweeted, “Corona curfew will be fully implemented in the Union Territory from 8 pm on 24 April (Saturday) to 6 am on 26 April (Monday). Necessary and emergency services will be allowed. All markets and commercial institutions will remain closed. “
The Jammu and Kashmir administration had on April 8 ordered the night curfew to be implemented in urban areas of eight districts from 10 am to 6 am, which was later extended to municipal and urban local bodies of all 20 districts of the union territory on April 20. Limits were also ordered to be implemented.
Officials said that the total number of infected people in the union territory rose to 1,56,344 in Jammu and Kashmir after 1,937 new cases of infection were reported on Friday, out of which the total death toll rose to 2,111 after the death of 19 people in one day. Has gone.
