The UP government has decided to end the night curfew from Saturday. The night curfew hours in the state was between 10.00 pm to 6.00 am, which was relaxed by an hour from February 13. "In view of a sharp drop in coronavirus cases, it has been decided to end the night curfew from Saturday," Additional Chief Secretary (Home), Awanish Awasthi said. The announcement comes a day ahead of the third phase of polling in the state. As many as 627 candidates are contesting in 59 assembly constituencies spread across 16 districts, in which over 2.15 crore people are eligible to vote.
In the past 24 hours, 842 fresh COVID-19 cases were reported in Uttar Pradesh, taking the caseload in the state to 20,63,9041. The active cases have dropped sharply from around 15,000 a week ago to 8,683 Saturday. Covid cases have fallen across the country in the last few days rapidly. India registered a 14 per cent drop in daily cases as it reported 22,270 infections on Saturday morning..
Sunil Shukla





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