NEW DELHI: The Centre on Saturday issued orders extending lockdown for one month beginning June 1 while going for considerable relaxations outside the containment zones. It called this new phase as “Unlock-1”.
From malls, hotels, restaurants to places of worship, schools and colleges have all been allowed to open in a phased manner over the next couple of months. However, the states will have the freedom to decide the future course of action and may not open them or put suitable restrictions if they deem it necessary in order to keep the Corona outbreak in check, the new guidelines issued by the Ministry of Home Affairs maintained.
It has also said that the Health ministry will issue a standard operating procedure for all these activities which are now being permitted. According to the guidelines, night curfew shall remain in operation but its timings have been changed from 7 pm-7 am to 9 pm-5 am.
As India’s COVID-19 death toll crossed the 5,000-mark on Saturday and the case count reached 1.76 lakh after a record spike in numbers of new cases and fatalities, the Centre has initiated a phased exit from the over-two-months-long nationwide lockdown.
States and Union Territories will be allowed to impose additional curbs as per the ground situation about the pandemic, which has had a huge economic cost as well mainly due to the lockdown bringing most business activities to a standstill.
This story is from the May 31, 2020 edition of Millennium Post Delhi.
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