Soon after assuming power Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday announced a number of restrictions to contain the corona pandemic.
Among these restrictions are suspending of all the suburban trains, curtailing metro and other public transport services by half and imposing partial curbs on the market. The attendance of the Government employees had already been reduced to half.
Asking the private concerns to encourage work-from-home system Banerjee said, “Controlling corona situation is my first priority and we will do it anyway.” She said that no person entering the State would be allowed to do so without a RT-PCR negative report.
“From 7th May onwards, no flight will be allowed in Bengal without all the RT-PCR negative tests for all passengers. We are seeing fake certificates also, so random tests will be done and if any passengers are affected by Covid, they will be quarantined,” she said.
Saying that all gatherings save cultural and social ones will be allowed Banerjee said such gatherings should be allowed only with prior permission and with not more than 50 people. Markets would open for 5 hours per day she said. The timing for all the shops, save groceries and medicine outlets would be from 7 am to 10 am in the morning and from 5 pm to 7 pm in the evening.
On whether there would be any lockdown Banerjee said her Government was not thinking of lockdown immediately.