AGARTALA, April 24 (TIWN): Weekly Mask Enforcement drive has been started in Agartala on Saturday morning as a section of the people are still unwilling to wear masks. Everyday there are mask-implementation drives but on Saturday, a special Mask-Enforcement drive is observed and today also it was held. Violators were imposed with fines whereas the Enforcement Dept team when was talking to media said that though after a constant mask drive, people are wearing masks but around 10% people are yet unwilling to wear any mask and actions are underway against them. Tripura right now is under night curfew which starts from 10 pm to morning 5 am along with restrictions have been imposed on gatherings. However, apart from Agartala in other places, specially in rural areas people are much reluctant to wear masks which is a matter of concern when COVID cases and deaths at high. Fresh cases once again touched a new peak of 3.46 lakh in a single day in India while deaths hit a grim new record of 2,600 on Friday. India has now reported close to a million new cases (9.94 lakh) in just three days, while Friday was also the fourth day in a row in which India reported more than 2,000 deaths in 24 hours.

 Brazil reported 79,719 cases on Thursday while the respective figures were 62,642 for the US and 54,791 for Turkey. None of the other worst-affected countries are even close to India. Of the total 8.9 lakh fresh cases reported internationally, a significant 37% were reported from India alone.

www.youtube.com/watch Special Mask Enforcement Drive held on Saturday in Agartala. TIWN Video April 24, 2021