Goa extends curfew till June 28 with some relaxations. Details
India | June 19, 2021 22:54 ISTThe Goa government has extended the ongoing Covid-related curfew till June 28 morning, Chief Minister Pramod Sawant announced on Saturday.
The Goa government has extended the ongoing Covid-related curfew till June 28 morning, Chief Minister Pramod Sawant announced on Saturday.
"Shops, including in panchayat and municipal markets, may open between 7 am to 3 pm. Marriage function with upto 50 persons have been permitted," he said on Twitter late in the evening.
The state government has held two "Tika Utsavs" in the past involving all panchayats and municipal councils.
The academic year 2021-22 will start in Goa on June 21 and a decision on the mode of education will be taken in the next week, a senior officialsaid on Monday.
The Goa government has extended the ongoing Covid-related curfew till June 14, Chief Minister Pramod Sawant announced on Saturday.
CM Pramod Sawant, who chaired the task force meeting here, said experts from state-run Goa Medical College and Hospital would begin training 120 paediatricians and a large number of nurses from Monday.
Citing rise in the number of divorce cases, the Goa government has decided to come up with a policy to make premarital counselling mandatory.
The onset of the Southwest Monsoon over Kerala is likely around May 31 and it may reach Goa on June 5, an India Meteorological Department (IMD)official said here on Saturday.
The Goa government has extended the ongoing Covid-related curfew till June 7, the Chief Minister's Office said on Saturday.
The Goa government on Friday defended before the Bombay High Court its controversial decision to distribute Ivermectin tablets as preventive medicine against COVID-19.
The Goa government on Sunday extended till May 31 a coronavirus-induced curfew in place in the state since May 9, an official said.
Goa Board Exams 2021: The Goa government has cancelled the state board examination for Class 10 students in view of the COVID-19 outbreak, Chief Minister Pramod Sawant said. A decision on Goa board Class 12 exams would be taken in the next two days.
A cyclonic circulation in the Bay of Bengal may intensify in the next couple of days and bring showers in some parts of coastal Maharashtra, except Mumbai, and central parts of the state, the India Meteorological Department said on Saturday.
For Karnataka, The India Meteorological Department (IMD) has warned of light to moderate rainfall at most places, with heavy to very heavy falls at isolated places in the coastal and adjoining ghat districts of the state on Sunday.
Gusty winds and heavy rains lashed several parts of Goa on Sunday morning due to cyclonic storm Tauktae, uprooting electric poles and affecting power supply in many parts of the coastal state, officials said.
15 COVID-19 patients died between 2-6 am on May 13 allegedly due to oxygen shortage at Goa Medical College and Hospital.
Amid the worsening situation in Goa, differences between Sawant and Rane over Covid management have come to the fore.
Thirteen Covid patients died at Goa's apex government hospital, the Goa Medical College, in the early hours of Friday owing to oxygen mismanagement.
An oxygen tank leaked at South Goa District Hospital on May 11.
The Bombay High Court's Goa bench on Tuesday ordered that no person will be allowed to enter the coastal state without a negative COVID-19 test report, except in cases of medical emergency.
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