India
oi-Ajay Joseph Raj P
New Delhi, July 09: Marriages and funerals will be permitted in Delhi with a limited number of attendees across all the four grades under the colour-coded action plan approved by authorities on Friday to deal with a possible third wave of the coronavirus pandemic.
The four colour codes in the increasing severity order – ‘Yellow’, ‘Amber’, ‘Orange’ and ‘Red’, based on positivity rate (on two consecutive days), cumulative number of new cases (over a week) and average oxygenated-bed occupancy (for a week) will designate four levels of alerts, officials said.
According to the proposed action plan, marriage and funeral functions will continue during all the four levels of action, with crowd size ranging from 20 (yellow and amber) to 15 (orange and red) for both the social activities. Religious…