Delhi Is Open, But Borders Will Be Closed For A Week As Number Of COVID-19 Cases Spike
The Delhi borders will be shut for a week, said chief minister Arvind Kejriwal on Monday, adding that essential services will be allowed. The CM added that people having passes will be allowed to enter the national capital.?
¡°Delhi borders to be sealed for the next one week. Essential services are exempted. We will take a decision again in one week to open borders after suggestions from citizens,¡± said the CM.?
The order to shut borders comes hours after Haryana opened Gurgaon-Delhi borders in line with the Centre¡¯s revised guidelines for Unlock 1.On Sunday, the Gautam Buddh Nagar district administration in Uttar Pradesh had announced that the Noida-Delhi border will remain sealed for movement of people to and from the national capital.?
The border restrictions caught many commuters on their way to work unaware. Long queues of vehicles were seen at the Delhi-Gurugram border on Monday.?
"The state government announced yesterday that inter-state travel is allowed, but today they are not allowing us as we do not have any movement pass," a commuter told ANI.?
Sanjay Kapoor, who came from Delhi's Rohini and was heading to Sohna road said: "Earlier, they were allowing vehicles. Now, police are stopping us. They are saying that people with passes will be allowed."?
Earlier in the morning, vehicles were seen moving freely at the Delhi-Gurugram border without any checks.A similar situation was seen at the Delhi-Ghaziabad border near Ghazipur but the district administration of Gautam Buddha Nagar decided to seal its border.?
Uttar Pradesh Police officials were seen checking check passes and identity cards of people entering the district at the Noida-Delhi border near Delhi's Mayur Vihar Extension area and at the Delhi Noida Direct Flyway.?
As per a report of the Gautam Buddha Nagar health department, 'source of infection in 42 per cent of the COVID-19 cases in the last 20 days has been tracked to Delhi'.The Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) in its new guidelines on Saturday, which will be applicable after the end of the fourth phase of lockdown on May 31, has said that there shall be no restriction on interstate and intrastate movement.?
Also, no separate permission/approval/ e-permit will be required for such movements.However, if a state or union territory, based on reasons of public health and its assessment of the situation proposes to regulate the movement of persons, it will give wide publicity in advance regarding the restrictions to be placed on such movement and the related procedures to be followed.
