New Delhi: Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia on Tuesday announced a weekend curfew in the city in view of the surge in Covid-19 cases driven by the Omicron variant. At a press conference, he urged citizens to not move out of their homes on Saturdays and Sundays, except in case of emergencies.
Under the new guidelines, government employees, except those engaged in essential services, will be asked to work from home, while private offices will function at 50% capacity, Sisodia added.
Delhi has seen an alarming rise in daily coronavirus cases over the last few days. On Monday, the city recorded 4,099 new cases, while the positivity rate stood at 6.46%. Just a week back, on December 27, Delhi had logged 331 cases with a positivity rate of 0.68%. On Tuesday morning, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal also tested positive for the disease.
On Monday, Delhi Health Minister Satyendar Jain had said that the Omicron variant was now the dominant strain of infections in the city. He said that 81.28% of the coronavirus cases in the Capital in the last few days were of the Omicron variant. Scroll. In
