Madhya Pradesh Government Halts Bus Service From March 20 As Maharashtra Coronavirus Cases Spike

Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan ordered that bus service to & from Maharashtra be stopped from March 20. The government has already advised officials in border districts to place the passengers arriving from Maharashtra in a week-long quarantine. Maharashtra logged 25,833 fresh cases of Covid-19 over the last 24 hours, the highest since the outbreak of the pandemic last year. Fifty-eight people have died. Under the new rules, markets in parts of Madhya Pradesh will remain closed from 10 pm to 6 am. Timing for commercial establishments & markets have been curtailed in Gwalior, Jabalpur, including the most affected districts of the state, Ujjain, Sagar, Betul, Burhanpur, Khargone, Ratlam & Chhindwara. Over the last seven days, 1,778 positive cases were registered in Indore, 1,170 in Bhopal, 358 in Jabalpur, 185 in Gwalior, 187 in Ujjain, 162 in Ratlam, 147 in Chhindwara, 130 in Burhanpur, 110 in Betul and 92 in Khargone. In the last 24 hours, the state has logged 917 fresh cases of coronavirus, taking its total to 2,71,957. One person has died, taking the number of fatalities to 3,894.

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