Gujarat: Compulsory Community Service At Covid-19 Care Centres For Not Wearing Masks6Photo© hindustantimes.com

Gujarat: Compulsory Community Service At Covid-19 Care Centres For Not Wearing Masks

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In a bid to control the Covid-19 situation in Gujarat, the high court on Wednesday ordered that those not found wearing masks will have to serve a “compulsory community service” at Covid-19 care centres, news agency ANI has reported. The Gujarat high court, the agency further said, directed the state government to pass a notification in this regard.

In recent days, the Gujarat government has announced a series of measures to curb the pandemic in the state. On Tuesday, deputy chief minister Nitin Patel announced that the price of reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) test by private labs will be reduced to Rs 800. If the patient wants to be tested at home, Patel said, he/she will have to pay Rs 1,100. Before the government’s announcement, private labs were charging Rs 1,500 to Rs 2,000 for conducting RT-PCR tests.

The government has also put the state’s four largest cities-Ahmedabad, Rajkot, Surat and Vadodara-under night curfew. A 57-hour “complete curfew” was announced in Ahmedabad from 9pm on November 20 to 6am on November 23. At the end of the “complete curfew,” the government announced that a daily night curfew, from 9pm to 6am, would remain in force in the city till the situation is brought under control. The night curfew for Rajkot, Surat and Vadodara, meanwhile, was announced on November 21.