UP govt puts 15 districts under lockdown till Wednesday

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Sunday announced that 15 districts in the state will be locked down till Wednesday amid a spurt in coronavirus cases.

The announcement came soon after the Centre and state governments decided to put under lockdown 80 districts across the country, where coronavirus cases have been reported.

"Fifteen districts in the state will be locked down in the first phase from Monday," Adityanath told reporters in Gorakhpur.

The districts where the lockdown has been enforced in the first phase are Lucknow, Agra, Gautam Buddha Nagar, Ghaziabad, Varanasi, Allahabad, Kanpur, Aligarh, Moradabad, Lakhimpur Kheiri, Bareilly, Azamgarh, Meerut, Gorakhpur and Saharanpur.

The lockdown will continue till Wednesday, he said. "I appeal to all the citizens that they should stay indoors and not venture out of their homes."