Museums, Libraries, hair cutting salons, coaching centres closed until Mar 31 in Guwahati

GUWAHATI: As a precautionary measure to prevent the spread of coronavirus, museums, libraries, coaching centres, beauty parlours and barber shops in Assam, will be shut until 31st March 2020, informed Finance, Health, Education and PWD minister Himanta Biswa Sarma

He tweeted:

https://twitter.com/himantabiswa/status/1240475676999708676

Meanwhile, Govt of Assam has come up with regulations for prevention & containment of Coronavirus called ‘The Assam COVID-19 Regulations, 2020’ to deal with the situation better.

For a fact, the Centre has invoked a 123-year-old Epidemic Diseases Act to deal with coronavirus. The Act has been historically used to contain the spread of various diseases — swine flu, cholera, malaria and dengue.

Constitution experts say if the government believes a colonial-era law helps in containing the outbreak, then nothing is wrong in such a decision.

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