{"id":37695,"date":"2021-04-09T18:36:17","date_gmt":"2021-04-09T13:06:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kashmir.today\/?p=37695"},"modified":"2021-04-09T18:36:17","modified_gmt":"2021-04-09T13:06:17","slug":"people-question-govts-night-curfew-decision-say-kashmiris-have-no-night-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=37695","title":{"rendered":"People question Govt\u2019s night curfew decision, say Kashmiris have \u2018no night life\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

Srinagar April 09: Government\u2019s decision for imposing night curfew has not gone well with people questioning it when tourist spots are open in Kashmir and won\u2019t contain the virus.<\/em>
\nLieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha has ordered an imposition of night curfew in the urban areas of eight districts, including Jammu and Srinagar, to check the spread of the soaring coronavirus cases.<\/em>
\nHowever, experts and common masses have questioned the decision saying it won\u2019t stop spread of COVID-19 infection as there is no night life in Kashmir.<\/em>
\n\u201cIt beats logic to have restrictions at night when most of the crowds are during the day,\u201d said DAK President and influenza expert Dr Nisar ul Hassan in a statement to news agency Kashmir Indepth News Service (KINS).<\/em>
\n\u201cOne wonders how night curfew will help in curbing the spread, when people go about their business during the day hours,\u201d he said.<\/em>
\n\u201cWe have no night life in Kashmir. There is no movement at all during the night hours. Life comes to a standstill in the night.\u201d<\/em>
\n\u201cAll activities happen during the day and that is the time when virus transmission occurs,\u201d DAK President said.<\/em>
\n\u201cIt is during daytime that huge crowds are seen in markets, large gatherings are seen at social and public functions which is the main cause behind the spread of Covid-19 infection in the community.\u201d<\/em>
\nKashmir is reeling under the grip of a raging second wave of Covid-19 with surge in number of cases and hospitalizations too.<\/em>
\nJ&K Government yesterday has announced imposition of night curfew from April 09 in a bid to contain the spread of coronavirus.<\/em>
\n\u201cThe virus does not take rest during the day and becomes active during the night. It doesn\u2019t work like that,\u201d Dr Nisar said.<\/em>
\n\u201cThere is no data to support the use of night curfew to reduce the virus transmission.\u201d<\/em>
\n\u201cEven union health ministry has written to states like Maharashtra that night curfew has not much impact on virus transmission.\u201d<\/em>
\n\u201cInstead of applying night curfew, we need to make people understand that corona is still here and they need to be cautious,\u201d he said.<\/em>
\nAbdul Hamid, a school teacher said that imposition of night curfew was a bizarre move by the government. \u201cWe have no night life in Kashmir then how can night curfew help to contain the COVID-19,\u201d he said.<\/em>
\nSimilarly, on last Sunday, authorities announced closure of schools in Kashmir upto class 9th for two weeks and one week for class 10th, 11th, and 12th. The decision was taken after around 200 students were tested positive for COVID-19 in schools across Kashmir.<\/em>
\nAt the same time, people have questioned the government\u2019s move saying tourist spots have been kept open where tourists and locals visit without wearing masks or maintaining social distancing.<\/em>
\nTulip Garden and Badamwari in Srinagar have become a main attraction of tourists and locals, where people in large numbers throng these days.<\/em>
\n\u201cGovernment announced closure of school for safety of students but those children are now visiting Tulip Garden. I fail to understand for what purpose schools were closed when thousands of people visit gardens without even wearing masks,\u201d Abdul Gani Bhat, a resident of Dalgate told news agency Kashmir Indepth News Service (KINS).<\/em>
\nOn last Saturday, the tulip festival was thrown open by Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha in presence of Kerala Governor Arif Mohammad Khan.<\/em>
\nAn official of the Floriculture Department said over 1.10 lakh people have visited Tulip Garden since it was thrown open on March 25. (KINS)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Srinagar April 09: Government\u2019s decision for imposing night curfew has not gone well with people questioning it when tourist spots are open in Kashmir and won\u2019t contain the virus. Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha has ordered an imposition of night curfew in the urban areas of eight districts, including Jammu and Srinagar, to check the spread […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":37694,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-union-territory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37695","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37695"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37695\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}