Twin City & Bhadrak to be Completely Shut Down for 48 Hours
Bhubaneswar (Pramit Pramathes): Silver City Cuttack, State Capital and Bhadrak will be completely under shutdown starting from 8 PM of Friday to 8 PM of Sunday. Odisha Chief Secretary Asit Tripathy intimated about it in a press meet today.
The shut down have been ordered to be imposed in Cuttack, Bhubaneswar and Bhadrak because all the six Coronavirus positive cases of Odisha are either from Bhubaneswar or Bhadrak and the recent sixth one is from Cuttack. It is to be noted that out of the six cases four are from the capital city and one each from Cuttack and Bhadrak .
The strict measure of ‘shut down’ has been taken to contain probability of community spread of novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) as the 5th person of Odisha who was found Coronavirus positive has not any history of travelling to any foreign country or even any other state in the last one month. Hence, the probability of community spread may not be set aside at this point.
During this 48 hour shut down in Twin City and Bhadrak services including groceries, vegetables, fruits, dairy, fish and meats will not be available. During the 21 days lock down period these essential goods were available but during this coming 48 hour shut down period of 48 hours shops/ business entities selling these goods will remain shut.
However, the medical services will remain open during the shut down. The district administrations will allow a limited number of medicine stores to remain open for the next 48 hours. For healthcare service on emergency basis, the ambulance service is available in Bhubaneswar.
Putting restriction on movement of vehicles, which have been issued pass, DGP Abhay said that all the passes will remain suspended for this 48 hours.
