Lockdown to be tightened today onward
Source: The Sangai Express
Imphal, July 25 2020:
With the COVID-19 cases surging rapidly and continuously across the State, the Government has decided to tighten the ongoing lockdown from tomorrow.
A meeting of the COVID-19 State Consultative Committee held this afternoon with Chief Minister N Biren in the chair adopted a decision to this effect.
As decided at the meeting, sale of edible items including vegetables in the morning at local level would be prohibited.
Transportation of vegetables to Imphal from different districts would also be banned so as to avoid any gathering of people, sources informed.
If the COVID-19 situation seen in Jiribam and Thoubal unfolds in Imphal too, it would turn out to be a very dangerous challenge.
That is why, the State Government decided to take up extra preventive and containment measures, said the sources.
Status of contact tracing being done in Thoubal, Jiribam, Churachandpur and Kangpokpi was also reviewed at the meeting.
The meeting further decided to speed up the contact tracing process, the sources added.