Collector relaxes curbs in Kasaragod

Markets, offices, factories, and tourist resorts can function from Monday to Saturday

District Collector Bhandari Swagat Ranveerchand has relaxed COVID-related restrictions imposed in all areas except local bodies with containment zones and micro containment zones in the district. The Collector said that shops, markets, banks, offices, financial institutions, factories, industrial establishments and tourist resorts could function from Monday to Saturday, from 7 a.m. to 9 p.m., in accordance with the COVID protocol. Only one person would be allowed within a 25 sqft space. Hotels and restaurants could make online deliveries until 9.30 p.m. Information on the vaccination of employees in all these institutions and the number of people allowed to be present at a time should be clearly displayed. It was the responsibility of the business owner to prevent crowding and congestion, said Ms. Ranveerchand. She said all public sector institutions such as government offices, public sector undertakings, companies, autonomous bodies, and commissions could open from Monday to Friday. Only those who had taken at least one dose of the COVID vaccine, and who had an RT-PCR negative certificate taken within 72 hours would be admitted to these places. This provision does not apply to children with adults.