India extends lockdown till June 30 with more relaxations

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NDTV :
Malls, hotels, restaurants and places of worship can open on June 8 except in areas with the most number of coronavirus cases, the Indian government said on Sunday, extending the nationwide lockdown till June 30 with a phased plan to unlock India.
All activities banned earlier will open up in phases, the home ministry said in new guidelines on Saturday, a day before the current phase of lockdown ends.
Strict orders enforced on March 25, when the country went into a total lockdown to break the chain of transmission of the virus, will be limited to containment zones – areas sealed because of a large number of COVID-19 cases – at least till June 30.
Night curfew will stay, but timings will be changed to 9 pm-5 am from the existing 7 pm-7 am.
India reported the biggest single-day jump in the number of new coronavirus patients and those who died due to the highly infectious illness with 7,964 fresh cases and 265 deaths reported in the last 24 hours, which brings the total to 1,73,763 cases, according to the data shared by Union Health Ministry this morning, reports NDTV.
Malls, hotels, restaurants and places of worship can open on June 8 except in areas with the most number of coronavirus cases, the government said today, extending
the nationwide lockdown till June 30 with a phased plan to unlock India.
All activities banned earlier will open up in phases, the home ministry said in new guidelines on Saturday, a day before the current phase of lockdown ends.
Strict orders enforced on March 25, when the country went into a total lockdown to break the chain of transmission of the virus, will be limited to containment zones – areas sealed because of a large number of COVID-19 cases – at least till June 30.
Night curfew will stay, but timings will be changed to 9 pm-5 am from the existing 7 pm-7 am.
India reported the biggest single-day jump in the number of new coronavirus patients and those who died due to the highly infectious illness with 7,964 fresh cases and 265 deaths reported in the last 24 hours, which brings the total to 1,73,763 cases, according to the data shared by Union Health Ministry this morning.
The number of coronavirus cases worldwide topped six million Sunday, with Brazil registering another record surge in daily infections as divisions deepened on how to deal with the pandemic.
Latin American countries are bracing for difficult weeks ahead as the disease spreads rapidly across the region, even as much of the world exits lockdowns that have wrecked economies and stripped millions of their jobs.
About 8,380 coronavirus cases were reported in India in the last 24 hours, taking the total number of cases to 182,143. Till now, 5,164 people have died of COVID-19 in the country.
The Tamil Nadu government has extended the lockdown till June 30 amid coronavirus pandemic, with new set of relaxations including partial resumption of public transport.
The moves comes a day after the Centre released new guidelines for lockdown extension.
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