Only fully vaccinated people will be authorized at public places such as markets, malls, hotels, and cinema halls in Punjab, the state administration declared on Tuesday amid a rise in coronavirus cases in several parts of the nation run by the Omicron variant of COVID-19. The law, which comes into effect from January 15, regardless, conspicuously did not speak of the political rallies at a time when the state is preparing to hold elections early next year. Private and public sector banks, hotels, bars, restaurants, malls, shopping complexes, cinema halls, gyms, and fitness centers have been requested to permit only fully vaccinated adults. All government, board, and corporation bureaus situated in Chandigarh will authorize only fully vaccinated people, as per the order published by the state’s home affairs and justice department.
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“…COVID-19 pandemic has posed a huge challenge to the community and affected every individual adversely. Considering emergent issues especially because of the new variant of concern Omicron, the persons who are not fully vaccinated are required to take more precautions,” the order asserted. Consequently, all those adult persons who have not yet taken both the doses of vaccination should reside at their homes and should not visit any of public places/market/ function/ public transport/religious places, etc,” it said. It further stated that vaccination teams where and whenever urged by the office in charge for on-the-spot vaccination or for regular vaccination camps at places of assembling would be provided by the department of health, it explained. A few days back, the Punjab administration had inquired its employees to provide details regarding COVID-19 vaccination and said if they fail to do so, they will not be able to draw their salaries. Punjab on Monday had documented 46 new cases of the coronavirus, which brought the infection tally to 6,04,279, as per a medical bulletin.
