The Uttarakhand government on Monday announced that the COVID curfew will remain in force in the state from August 17 at 6 am to August 24 at 6 am to check the spread of coronavirus. The state government said that the COVID-19 vaccination exercise will continue during the curfew.

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CM Pushkar Singh Dhami-led state did not announce any relaxations in the state despite a declining trend of COVID cases in Uttarakhand. 

The state government had last week extended the COVID curfew by another week, till August 17. 

Uttarakhand on Sunday recorded 16 cases of COVID-19, taking the caseload of the state to 342,588. There are currently 380 active cases of COVID-19 in the state as 15 people recovered from the disease in the past 24 hours. The death toll from COVID in Uttarakhand currently stands at 7,370. 

Meanwhile, India in the past 24 hours recorded 32,937 fresh cases of COVID-19, taking the tally to 3,22,25,513, the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare said. 

With 417 deaths on Sunday, the death toll from COVID-19 in India climbed to 4,31,642. There are currently 3,81,947 active cases of COVID-19 in India. The active COVID cases comprise 1.18 percent of the total infections in the country.