About eight weeks after they were closed to check the rampaging second wave of Covid-19, the capital’s restaurants are likely to be allowed to open from Monday with 50% of their sitting capacity, according to sources.
Offering a helping hand to underprivileged people who can’t access Covid vaccination facilities for various reasons, many RWAs, NGOs and trusts in the city have come together in different residential areas to raise funds and hold free inoculation camps.
The state government had earlier announced that special drives will be conducted across the state to inoculate the vendors and hawkers.
Now when lockdown has been lifted, it seems business will start reopening properly soon.
Of them, 15,411 were in the 18-44 age group, 1,974 people were aged 45 years or above, 50 were healthcare workers and 259 were frontline workers.
Meanwhile, 12 new cases were reported in Gautam Budh Nagar on Saturday and no deaths were recorded on the same day.
The capital recorded 213 new novel coronavirus cases — the lowest in over three months— and 28 fatalities on Saturday.
This will come as a big relief to the restaurant industry since many establishments have virtually gone out of business with even online delivery and takeaways getting a lukewarm response because of the Corona scare.
Kejriwal said that the chances of a resurgence in Covid-19 infection were “quite real” and said the government was preparing for it on a war footing.
With the Covid situation improving in Delhi, authorities are expected to give more relaxations and allow reopening of salons and weekly markets from next week, sources claimed on Saturday.
BJP MP Parvesh Verma’s NGO Rashtriya Swabhiman will bear all responsibility of marriage of girls in Delhi who lost earning members in their families to COVID-19, said the senior leader on Saturday.
The Resident Welfare Association of the New Friends Colony in south Delhi started a six-day Covid vaccination camp from Saturday.
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal Saturday cautioned that the chances of a third Covid wave were quite real, and asserted his government was preparing on a “war-footing” to combat it.
HCL on Saturday announced that it has provided 17 ready-to-use oxygen plants to the Delhi government.