The Delhi Disaster Management Authority (DDMA) has decided to impose a weekend curfew in the city to control the spread of Covid-19. During the weekend curfew, no non-essential movement will be allowed.
According to the orders, government offices in the city would have to implement work from home for employees, apart from critical services, and private offices will operate at 50% capacity.
To reduce crowding around metro stations and bus stops, Delhi deputy chief minister Manish Sisodia announced that buses and metro will run at full capacity.
Satyendar Jain, the Delhi health minister, announced on Monday that Omicron is the most dominant Covid-19 variant in the city, with evidence of the heavily mutated virus found in percent of the samples sent for genome sequencing.
Meanwhile, the city has been placed on a yellow alert under the Graded Response Action Plan (GRAP), which has imposed a number of restrictions, including a night curfew between 10 p.m. and 5 a.m., as well as the closure of educational institutions, gyms, and cinemas, among other things.
