Night curfew in Pune to curb rising Covid cases; schools shut till Feb 28

Hotels, restaurants and bars to shut at 11 pm as positivity rate is up 10%; essential services remain unaffected; Maharashtra reports 6,281 new cases, 40 deaths in past 24 hours

Pune on Sunday announced a night curfew effective tomorrow in view of the rising coronavirus cases. However, essential services will remain unaffected. People can step out of their homes only for essential work.

"No public movement will be allowed from 11 p.m. to 6 a.m," said the Pune's divisional commissioner Saurabh Rao. 

“In Pune district, the positivity rate has gone up to 10 per cent. It was only about 4.5 to 5 per cent a fortnight earlier. To avoid a repeat of what happened last year, where the positivity rate had risen from 2 to 4 per cent to 10