Night curfew, lockdown in UP? Here’s what state govt says

Despite a surge in the number of COVID-19 cases in the state, the Yogi Adityanath government has ruled out any night curfew and lockdown in any part of the state. UP Health Minister Jai Pratap Singh said that the government machinery is concentrating more on the preventive steps like focus and contact/target testing to arrest the cases before it takes an alarming proposition. He said that the Integrated Control and Command Centre of the Health department has been put on high alert to monitor the situation.