Lengthy queues of commuters had been seen outdoors Rajiv Chowk Metro Station on New 12 months day.
New Delhi:
An enormous variety of folks had been seen at public locations in Delhi on the primary day of New 12 months on Saturday with few sporting masks and even fewer displaying any warning amid rising coronavirus instances as a result of new coronavirus variant Omicron.
Lengthy queues of commuters had been seen outdoors Rajiv Chowk Metro Station in Connaught Place regardless of curbs within the nationwide capital.
Anticipating an enormous rush of commuters on the New 12 months’s Eve, Delhi metro authorities restricted exit from Rajiv Chowk metro station after 9pm on Friday.
Folks stand in queues outdoors Rajiv Chowk Metro Station, at Connaught place, in New Delhi
“To ease overcrowding on New 12 months’s Eve (thirty first December, 2021), exit from Rajiv Chowk metro station won’t be allowed from 9 pm onwards. Nonetheless, entry of passengers might be allowed until the departure of the final practice from the station. Commuters are requested to plan their journey accordingly,” the DMRC stated in a press release on Thursday.
#WATCH | Lengthy serpentine queues of commuters seen outdoors Rajiv Chowk Metro Station as revellers throng to Connaught Place on the #NewYear
Delhi metro trains are operating at 50% capability below the ‘yellow’ alert issued to curb the recent wave of #COVID19 infections pic.twitter.com/joLB8uO8Bv
— ANI (@ANI) January 1, 2022
Apart from Connaught Place, giant crowds had been seen at metropolis’s in style spots like Sadar Bazar Market, Crimson Fort because the morning.
Folks seen in giant numbers at Delhi’s Sadar Bazar Market, violating COVID-19 applicable conduct amid the spike in instances on New 12 months’s Day
On New 12 months’s eve, the Delhi Police made bulletins in Connaught Place asking folks to go house earlier than evening curfew kicks in.
Individuals are seen outdoors Crimson Fort on the primary day of New 12 months 2022, in Delhi
Delhi Deputy Commissioner of Police Deepak Yadav stated, “We began imposing restrictions publish 7 pm in Connaught Place and markets had been closed by 8 pm. Just some eating places have permission to remain open until 10 pm. The workers has been directed to take actions in case of unreasonable motion throughout evening curfew or drink and drive instances.”
Police personnel cease as commuters standing in a queue wait to enter the Rajiv Chowk Metro Station
A “yellow” alert below the Graded Response Motion Plan (GRAP) was sounded by the DDMA on Tuesday, which entails the operating of DTC buses and metro trains with 50 per cent seating capability and no provision for standing for commuters.
Delhi recorded a massive surge in daily COVID-19 infections with 2,716 recent instances on the primary day of the brand new yr, the best since Might 21 and a 51 per cent leap from a day earlier, whereas the positivity charge rose to three.64 %. The town recorded one loss of life.
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