
New Delhi:In view of the emerging threat of the Omicron spread and expected footfall of people during Christmas and New Year celebrations, the Gujarat government on Monday (December 20) extended the night curfew till December 31 in eight of its major cities.
The night curfew will continue in Ahmedabad, Gandhinagar, Surat, Rajkot, Vadodara, Bhavnagar, Jamnagar and Junagarh from 1 am to 5 am in the morning till December 31.
Restaurants in these cities can operate with 75% sitting capacity till midnight while the cinema halls are allowed to operate at 100% capacity.
The development comes after Gujarat on Monday reported four more cases of the Omicron variant of the coronavirus taking the state’s tally to 11.