Maharashtra districts resort to lockdown restrictions to curb spread of covid-19
A day after Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray announced night curfew in the state, various districts have started announcing lockdowns or restrictions to control the spread of the novel coronavirus. Post a meeting with divisional commissioners and other senior police and administrative officers, the Chief Minister had announced a night curfew from Sunday midnight. Thackeray also spoke about further steps which would mean a lockdown if there's no dip in the number of cases soon.Maharashtra has been reporting over 35,000 cases each day since the last week and is the highest contributor to the country's Covid-19 caseload. Many districts have already started clamping curbs on movement, with some going in for full-fledged lockdowns. Nanded's district collector, Dr Vipin Itankar, has put his district under a 10-day lockdown to curb the rapid rise in cases. Itankar has also taken to rationalise hospital admissions to ensure only serious and critical patients ...