SHAH KHALID
Srinagar Mar 22: Amid the curfew-like restrictions were put in place across Kashmir valley on Sunday as part of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s appeal to observe ‘Janata curfew’, even as the complete lockdown to contain the spread of coronavirus in the valley entered its fourth day. However, only the essential services employees with valid identity cards and emergency cases were allowed to move.
The authorities have imposed curfew-like restrictions on the movement and gathering of people across all districts of the Kashmir valley on Sunday, as the contingent of Police and Paramilitary forces were deployed across the valley, as more barricades, including concertina wires were put up at several places across the valley, including in the city here, to enforce the restrictions.
Sources had revealed to Kashmir Despatch that the Police had used their Official vehicles fitted with Public address system flanked by the Concerned Magistrates announcing the restrictions and appealed the public to remain indoors.
It is pertinent to mention, that the Governor administration had imposed the restrictions across Valley on Thursday after a 67-year-old woman from Khanyar locality who had returned on 16 March from Saudi Arabia after performing Umrah, tested positive for COVID.
However Official sources have revealed to Kashmir Despatch that the valley has registered only a single positive case of COVID-19 sofar.
