However, the Department of Health and Family Welfare has pleaded with others to voluntarily practice Covid-appropriate behavior as needed.
BHUBANESWAR: The state government on Saturday repealed Covid regulations mandating the wearing of face masks and practicing appropriate Covid habits and imposed restrictions and sanctions on gatherings. Covid cases in the state in recent months. There was a drastic drop in cases and hospitalizations after the fourth wave in July.
However, the Department of Health and Family Welfare has pleaded with others to voluntarily practice covid-appropriate behavior when necessary. Health Secretary Shalini Pandit said several states had already repealed regulations after covid cases dropped significantly. Detection of new cases in Odisha has declined, as have hospitalizations. But other people with symptoms adopt Covid-appropriate behavior for themselves and those around them,” he pleaded.
The state government had issued the “Odisha Covid-19 Regulations, 2020” on March 18 of the same year. This regulation has been amended periodically due to the pandemic. With only two cases, the state government had imposed a state lockdown on March 24, 2020. Before implementing it, the government had taken several measures to prevent the spread of Covid-19 in addition to signaling a state crisis on March 13.
The state shutdown followed a nationwide shutdown between March 25 and April 14. Prior to the extension announced by the Center, Odisha had extended the closure in the state until April 30 of the same year.
On 3 April 2020, the government amended Covid regulations by adding more day-to-day tasks and jobs to hospitals and local bodies, such as infection measures in hospitals and allowing officials to claim any public hospital or staff as a Covid hospital. The state recorded 4 new Covid cases in the last 24 hours, bringing the total to 13. 36 lakh. While another 13. 27 lakh have recovered so far, another 9204 people have succumbed to the disease. The number of active cases now stands at 86.
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