NASHIK: District guardian minister Chhagan Bhujbal on Thursday said there would be further relaxations in the restrictions in Nashik in due course. However, he did not specify any time frame when the relaxations would be introduced.
Nashik is at Level 3 of the restrictions at present. Bhujbal said the pandemic has badly affected economic activities and many people have lost their jobs. There is a need to ease the restrictions further so that commercial activities can be increased. The livelihood of a large section of the people depends on this, the guardian minister said.
“Moreover, the government needs revenue to provide services to citizens. The government will start earning revenue only after the economic activities gain momentum. Hence, there is a need to relax the current restrictions on commercial activities,” said Bhujbal.
He added that the restrictions had to be imposed in Nashik since the number of active Covid cases had risen to over 48,000, putting the health infrastructure under tremendous stress.
“But now the situation is under control as the active cases have reduced to around 1,800 cases. However, the number is not small,” cautioned Bhujbal.
There was a shortage of oxygen and the health machinery took all the efforts to provide better treatment to the patients during the second wave of the Covid, he said.
“Even though the second wave is under control, the third wave of Covid has already been projected. Hence, people should continue to observe Covid appropriate behaviour to prevent the spread of the infection,” said Bhujbal.
