Sikkim 3rd State In North-East To Impose Lockdown Amid Covid

Sikkim 3rd State In North-East To Impose Lockdown Amid Covid

Guwahati: Sikkim has called a lockdown from Monday for a week amid the COVID-19 pandemic. It is the third state in the north-east, after Mizoram and Nagaland, to impose a lockdown.

The lockdown in Sikkim will come into force at 5 am on Monday and will end at 5 am on May 24.

The Sikkim government said it decided to impose the lockdown "in view of the fact that the average positivity rate for COVID-19 cases in the state has continued to be more than 20 per cent in the last few weeks."

"There is an urgent need to impose stricter restrictions on movement of people within the state," the state government said in a notification.