nainital to check the spread of covid19 during christmas and new year the high court appointed districtlevel monitoring committees at nainital and dehradun suggested that thermal screening of travellers from other states and covidnegative certificates for them be made mandatory once again a bench of acting chief justice ravi malimath and justice ravindra maithani had earlier directed the committees to submit their plans to tackle the huge rush of tourists likely to the hill state on christmas and new year on wednesday the government told the court that that it would take the suggestions into consideration while making the necessary arrangements the bench then directed the state to file an affidavit in this regard by december 23 when the case would be heard next according to the report submitted by the nainital committee over 4000 vehicles are expected in the lake town on new years eve and handling such a crowd would be a challenge for the administration it said that all travellers entering the town should be screened for covid apart from random testing at various places it added that the upper mall road should also remain closed for vehicles from 2pm to midnight on new years eve to ensure social distancingmeanwhile the dehradun committee suggested that covidnegative certificates not older than 72 hours should once again be made mandatory for those coming from highload areas if such travellers are not carrying these certificates they should be tested at the border checkpoints at their own cost it said it also said that police should make sure that hotels in rishikesh and mussoorie are not filled beyond capacity during the festive season