Lockdown imposed in Pt DDU Nagar till July 23

Varanasi: After Ballia and Mau, the Chandauli administration has also decided to enforce complete lockdown in its biggest township of Pt Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Nagar (Mughalsarai) from Tuesday till July 23 in view of the possibility of sharp rise in Covid-19 cases here.
With the detection of 20 new cases, the tally of Covid-19 positive cases in Chadauli district crossed the mark of 300 on Monday night.Within a few minutes of the arrival of this report, district magistrate Chandauli Navneet Singh Chahal ordered for extending the prohibitory orders under section 144 in the entire district and also clamped lockdown for a period of 10 days from Tuesday morning.
In his order Chahal clearly mentioned that due to casual approach of people in the densely populated DDU Nagar, which is one of the the biggest township in the district housing major markets, the possibility of rapid spread of the virus is high there following he ordered to enforce lockdown in the town. Two wards of Chandauli township were also isolated.
After the massive rise in Covid-19 figures, DM Ballia Hari Pratap Shahi had ordered for 10-day lockdown in Ballia city on July 2 which was later extended till July 23. After two days, DM Mau Gyan Prakash Tripathi also ordered for lockdown in Mau main city areas for 10 days following detection of 65 cases in urban localities within a week.
Among the newly infected in Chandauli, three had returned from Oman, Chennai and Lucknow while other 17 are local natives including a employee of Trauma Centre of BHU in Varanasi, four railway employees, a fair price shop owner, a lawyer, two health department staff and a jeweller. Four persons have died while 57 have been discharged so far and 142 patients are under treatment in Chandauli.