Follow Covid norms to avert another lockdown: Uddhav Thackeray

With the Omicron variant compounding into a major global threat, Maharashtra chief minister Uddhav Thackeray asked people to follow all Covid-19 norms if another lockdown is to be averted.

“Covid-appropriate behaviour needs to be followed if another lockdown has to be averted,” Thackeray told a high-level meeting in which divisional commissioners, district collectors, municipal commissioners, police commissioners and superintendents of police were present.

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“Do whatever needs to be done to prevent the new Omicron of Covid-19. Get started without waiting for central government directives,’’ Thackeray said at a virtual meeting that he conducted from hospital, where he is recuperating.

The instructions sent by Centre from time to time needs to be followed, he said.

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