<span style="color: #222222;">In Puducherry, a total number of 1,74,259 persons inoculated so far.</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;"> </span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">This includes 1,09,471 General Public, 30,473 Health care workers and 18,128 Front line staffs.</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;"> </span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">AIR correspondent reports, the Puducherry administration has taken stringent measures to cut the spread of Covid infection.</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;"> </span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">As a part of the measures, the Secretary to Government Ashok Kumar in a press communique informed that the Corona curfew, that is night curfew shall be observed from 10 PM to Morning 5 AM.</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;"> </span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">Visitors shall not be allowed on beach road from 5 PM to 5AM. Restaurants, food courts and Tea shops shall be permitted to operate only till 8 PM with 50 per cent seating capacity.</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;"> </span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">Marriages and related gatherings shall be permitted with guests not exceeding 100 and the number of persons attending funerals shall not exceed 50.</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;"> </span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">Further the Excise department also announced that the retail sale of of liquor will be allowed up to 10 PM and the consumption of liquor inside the licenced premises is restricted up to 8 PM only. </span><br />''  <br />