Rajasthan Government has announced a statewide lockdown from 6pm till 6am till April 30, 2021. This decision was taken in a meeting chaired by the Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot.
The second wave of the COVID pandemic has hit the country and the state with a much larger impact than the first wave. Cases have risen exponentially and the death rate is also higher. 30% of the infection is in the rural areas of the state and 60% of the infection is among under the age of 45. People with a negative RTPCR report also have shown COVID symptoms.
The restrictions and allowances are as follows:
- 6pm till 6am lockdown in all urban areas. All markets, offices and commercial complexes will close at 5pm till April 30 202
- Government offices (except for those offices related to COVID management and War Room) will close at 4pm.
Exceptions (no passes required):
- Factories with 24 production units running
- Factories with night shifts
- IT companies
- Chemists
- Essential services and emergency services
- Marriage functions
- Health and medical facilities
- Bus Stand, Railway stations and Airports
- Goods and Transport agencies
- Those permitted to operate with government permission
- Educational institutes and coaching units as well as libraries will remain closed.
- Schools holding examinations and tests for classes 10 and 12 will remain open.
- Nursing and Medical colleges will function as usual.
- Online and distance learning will be permitted.
- Marriage functions:
- Not more than 50 people will be permitted in marriage functions.
- Information on marriage functions to be given through email to local administration.
- No Mask No Entry protocol to be followed at marriage functions.
- Thermal scanning, sanitizer and hand wash at entry points.
- Videography of the marriage function is mandatory.
- Those venues violating the above protocol shall be seized.
- Not more than 20 people permitted in funerals.
- No permission will be given for social, political, sporting, entertainment, education, cultural and religious gathering.
- Cinema halls, theaters, multiplex, entertainment parks to remain closed.
- Swimming pools, Gyms to remain closed.
- Regulations for Restaurants / Clubs:
- Operate with 50% capacity till 6pm.
- Alternate seating.
- Restaurant takeaway to function till 8pm.
- In-house services for guests permitte
- Offices to maintain all COVID protocol at premises and reduce the office staff to 50% ; Work From Home to be exercised, screening and hygiene.
- Regulations for Shops and Trading establishments:
- No Mask – No Service posters to be put up and implemented.
- Shops not implementing the No Mask – No Service protocol will be sealed.
- Shopkeepers and staff to use face masks.
- Face Masks compulsory at public places.
- No spitting in public areas.
- Maintain social distancing.
- Consumption of Alcohol and smoking, chewing tobacco, pan is forbidden at public places.
- RTPCR report compulsory while entering Rajasthan – 15 day quarantine otherwise.
- Markets in Rural areas to close by 8pm.