To contain the rapid spread of Covid-19, New Delhi intorduces fines for people who violate social distancing norms.
The Coronavirus cases in India and is rapidly rising and the national capital Delhi is in no mood to stop. Delhi is seeing a steep rise in positive cases every single day but thankfully, we can see a rise in recoveries too. In order to stop the rising speed of Covid-19 cases, North Delhi has finally taken a bold step.
In order to bring down the number of Coronavirus cases, the North Delhi District Magistrate office has decided to strictly implement the COVID- 19 rules laid down by the government and impose fines in case of violations.
Not just they planning to impose fine but are keen to test rapidly through mobile testing and deploy units on ground. To enforce the Covid-19 rules more strictly, north Delhi district magistrate Deepak Shinde has constituted 10 mobile teams on ground with the help of health, municipal and police staff to issue challans. The maximum amount of fine being levied is for not wearing masks, informed a government official from North district.
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According to the sources the number of mobile testing has been increased in last few days. Earlier, six mobile vans were launched by the administration with surveillance teams. These team were given the task to carry out rapid antigen testing for special groups of people like auto drivers and vegetable vendors.
As per the information given by Revenue department, there are 102 containment zones in North District which is the third highest in the city. Almost 112 coronavirus hot spots have been re-contained in the area till date. And the number of containment zones have increased in the district over a month.
When we compare this month to July (in respect to containment zones), there are 72 containment zones only, which gets a boost in this month. Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal has asked people to follow the norms otherwise strict measures will be taken.
In a single day approximately 954 challans were issued and Rs 4,71,000 was collected as penalty. Among 790 challans, maximum were issued for not wearing masks. Similarly, 160 people were penalised for not maintaining social distancing norms.
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