West Bengal shuts down non-essential services as Covid-19 cases rise to 3

Ban on social gatherings too, though marriage and cremation have been spared subject to minimal attendance. Provisions for forced quarantine in place

The West Bengal government on Saturday took stringent measures to contain the spread of Coronavirus by ordering closure of non-essential public places like restaurants, pubs, zoos and museums till March 31, even as the state reported the third case of viral infection.

An official notification from the home and hill affairs department said, “In order to further check non-essential social gathering which leads to spread of the virus from infected person to healthy person, it  is ordered to shut all restaurants, pubs, bars, clubs, night clubs, hookah bars, massage parlours, amusement parks, museums, zoos, with effect from 0600 hours of 22/03/2020”.

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