Puducherry Lieutenant Governor Tamilisai Soundararajan on Thursday, September 8 appealed to the people of the Union Territory to celebrate Vinayaka Chaturthi with strict adherence to COVID safety norms.
The Lieutenant Governor advised people to wear face masks, adhere to social distancing and other safety measures. She wished that the festival paved the way for protection to the people and also ushered in joy and prosperity to every section of people.
She said the territorial government has rolled out several restriction for people celebrating the festival, adding that these curbs should be followed particularly while celebrating the festival in public and keeping in mind the spread of the pandemic in neighboring States.
The Union Territory of Puducherry logged 82 new cases of Covid with the further testing of 5,348 samples during the last 24 hours ending 10 am on Thursday, taking the overall tally to 1,24,518, as per Health Department statement. The overall recoveries rose to 1,21,705 with 74 patients recovering from the disease, while the death toll went up to 1,820 with one more person from Karaikal succumbing to the virus. Puducherry has 993 active cases out of whom 175 were in hospitals and the remaining in home isolation. The Union Territory recorded 46 new infection cases while in Kariakal 19, Yanam 9 and Mahe 8.
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