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Colleges and coaching centers can open with deputy commissioner’s permission in Punjab

Last Updated on July 9, 2021 at 6:27 pm

Punjab has lifted the weekend and night curfew in the state as the cases of Covid were declining by the day.

The government has also allowed relaxations for people who have received at least one dose of COVID-19 vaccine, starting from July 12.

Colleges, Coaching centres, and rest of the institutions of higher learning will open but they will have to submit a certificate to specify that all teaching, non-teaching staff, and students have received at least one dose of a Covid-19 vaccine on a date two weeks or before.

Bars, cinema halls, restaurants, spas, swimming pools, malls, museums, zoos, and sports complexes will be allowed to reopen but staffs and visitors must have taken at least one dose of a Covid-19 vaccine.

However political rallies and gatherings are allowed but with due regard to be the number of people, that is 200 outdoors and 100 in the indoor settings. Chief Minister Captain Amrinder Singh also ordered Punjab’s Director General of Police (DGP) Dinkar Gupta to order challans to political leaders violating Covid protocols while holding rallies and protests.