In order to check the rise of Covid-19 in the state, the Gujarat government on Friday announced that night curfew from 9 PM to 7 AM, will be imposed in Rajkot, Vadodara, and Surat everyday. This decision comes a day after the government had announced a “complete curfew” in Ahmedabad city from Friday night till Monday morning with only allowing the opening of milk and medicines shops.

Madhya Pradesh government followed suit, and announced that it will impose night curfew from 10 PM to 6 AM in five cities including Bhopal, Indore, Ratlam, Vidisham and Gwalior to curb the rise of Covid-19 cases.

In a parallel development, today, Haryana Health Minister Anil Vij was administered a trial dose of potential coronavirus vaccine Covaxin in Ambala. The human trial of Covaxin had begun at Rohtak’s Post-Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences in July.

India’s COVID-19 caseload, in the meantime, has surpassed the 90-lakh mark on Friday with 45,882 new cases, while the recoveries surged to 84.28 lakh pushing the national recovery rate to 93.6 percent, according to the Union Health Ministry data. The data updated at 8 am showed that the total coronavirus cases mounted to 90,04,365 and the death toll climbed to 1,32,162 with the novel coronavirus virus claiming 584 lives in a span of 24 hours in the country. The COVID-19 case fatality rate has further declined to 1.46 percent. As indicated in the data, there are 4,43,794 active cases of coronavirus infection in the country which comprises 4.92 percent of the total caseload.