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No night curfew in Chandigarh on New Year’s eve

With declining number of Covid-19 cases, Chandigarh administration on Tuesday decided to not impose any additional restrictions, including the night curfew, on New Year’s eve.

Governor of Punjab-cum-Administrator, UT, held a review meeting in this regard with Principal Secretary of Health, Director General of Police and Deputy Commissioner.

DC Mandip Brar has asked the hotel owners to adhere to the Centre’s guidelines and operate with half capacity or keep the gathering limited to 200, whichever is less. Owners have also been asked to provide their sitting capacity list to UT by 1pm tomorrow.

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The Administrator directed the Director General of Police to ensure, that the existing COVID-19 appropriate behaviour and the restrictions on a number of persons and opening and closing of hotels, restaurants, etc should be strictly enforced.

As a precautionary measure, the administrator appealed to the residents not to crowd public places, and positively return to the comforts of their homes by 1:00am on New Year’s eve.

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