The district administration has also decided to shut down resorts and farm houses in rural areas here.
Also, in cases where COVID-19 infected people want to avail home isolation facility, it is mandatory that their family members should be fully vaccinated, Aurangabad Collector Sunil Chavan said. said in a release.
Leaves of government employees and semi-government employees have also been cancelled.
The decisions to check the spread of COVID-19 were taken after a meeting of district task force members and medical experts on Wednesday.
According to the release, hospitals in the district have been directed to conduct COVID-19 tests on patients undergoing surgery.
The family members of a COVID-19 patient in home isolation should also stay at home, it said.
Video recording will be done in hotels to prevent overcrowding, the release said, adding that the administration has also decided to ban ‘hurda’ parties (gatherings organized by people during winter season every year in rural areas) .
According to the release, the management of the party hall will have to give a written assurance that the number of people present during a function will not exceed 50.
Deputy Commissioner of Police Ujjwala Banker said that they have also been directed to inform about the upcoming bookings at their function halls.
On Wednesday, 120 new cases of coronavirus were reported in the district and two people died, taking the infection tally to 1,50,159 and the death toll to 3,658.
As per official figures, 1,46,229 have recovered from the disease so far, while the district currently has 272 active COVID-19 cases.
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