Bhubaneswar: In the wake of rising cases of Omicron variant, the Odisha government on Thursday issued fresh guidelines for the month of January 2022. As a preventive measure, the state also imposed a night curfew in urban areas from 10.00 PM to 5.00 AM.
However, the State government also released a list of activities exempted from 10PM-5AM Night Curfew in urban areas.
The restrictions shall not apply to the following activities:
- District and Municipal Administration/ Police/ Government Officials on duty
- Doctors, Medical/ Paramedical Staff (Govt. & Private), ambulances and emergency health staff
- Emergency workers of utilities such as Electricity, Fire Services, Telecom, Water Supply, Railways and Airport
- Print and Electronic Media identified by Commissionerate/ District Police
- Movement of Public Transport, private vehicles and taxis (including cabs by aggregators like Ola, Uber, etc.) to and from airports, railway station and bus terminals/ stands/ stops, for facilitating movement of passengers by air, rail and road.
- Staff of IT & ITeS Companies on production of their ID cards
- Early Warning Agencies including IMD
- Disaster Management establishments
- No restrictions shall apply to COVID testing and vaccination centres and movement of persons/ vehicles for COVID testing and vaccination shall be allowed.
- All Government & Private offices/ establishments dealing with essential services/ utility providers like power, telecommunication, water supply, Police, Municipal Services, Railways/ Airport/ Port services and Security etc. shall remain functional.
- All commercial establishments including essential items, food and vegetable shops, excluding all medicine/ pharmaceuticals/ medical devices/optical shops etc. shall remain closed.
- Any person, in case of medical or other emergency
- Owner/ staff of Chemist shops
- All industrial units
- All construction activities
- Operation of hotels and hospitality units, including their associated offices, movement of staff and associated personnel
- Dhabas along National and State Highways/ Major roads for takeaway only
- Petrol pumps and CNG Stations
- LPG distribution, home delivery of cooking gas and associated facilities, personnel and vehicular movement
- Home Delivery of food, groceries, vegetables, egg, fish, meat, milk and other essential items’ by restaurants and aggregators such as Zomato, Swiggy, OPOLFED, OMFED, Chilika Fresh etc.
