Streets again wore a deserted look on Saturday as restrictions on movement of people and transportation were re-imposed in view of 60-hour-long weekend curfew that came into force on Friday evening to curtail the spread of COVID-19 in the summer capital, Srinagar and other parts of Kashmir.
Markets continued to remain closed as shops and business established have been allowed to open on rotational basis only for two days –Mondays and Thursdays – in the valley, where the number of COVID positive cases has witnessed a significant decline during the last over two weeks though there was no letup in the number of deaths due to the virus.
Meanwhile, strict restrictions on movement of people and transportation in some Red category districts – including Anantnag and Baramulla – continued for the second successive day on Saturday.
The Jammu and Kashmir administration last week gave some relaxation in the month-long COVID curfew that was imposed amid unabated rise in the number of COVID positive cases and deaths on April 29.
