CHANDIGARH : Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh Thursday ordered stricter lockdown on weekends and public holidays, even as his state mulls stringent curbs, including mandatory testing certification, for those coming from Delhi.The decision to tighten the curbs on weekends and holidays has been taken amid apprehensions of COVID-19 reaching the community spread stage in Punjab and projections indicating that the peak in the state was still two months away.
Industries, however, will be allowed to function normally on all days, the CM said.The COVID tally in Punjab on Thursday reached 2,887 with 82 more people testing positive.