Tamil Nadu, Rajasthan and Puducherry will have a two-week shutdown starting Monday
Delhi and Uttar Pradesh Sundayextended the ongoing lockdown and corona curfew respectively till 17 May. In Uttar Pradesh, the curfew was earlier scheduled to end at 7 AM on Monday .
Many other states also announced the extension of ‘corona curfew’ due to the raging COVID pandemic with 4,03,738 new cases and 4,092 deaths recorded in a day.
Tamil Nadu, Rajasthan and Puducherry will also have a two-week shutdown starting Monday, while in Karnataka stringent lockdown-like restrictions will come into effect till May 24 . On Saturday, Kerala came under a nine-day complete lockdown.
In the Northeast, Mizoram government has imposed a seven-day complete lockdown from Monday and Sikkim has lockdown-like restrictions till May 16.
Here is a look at coronavirus-induced restrictions imposed by states and union territories:
- Delhi: The national capital has been under lockdown since April 19 and it has now been extended till May 17.
- Uttar Pradesh has extended the duration of corona curfew till May 17.
- Bihar on May 4 imposed a lockdown till May 15.
- Odisha is under a 14-day lockdown from May 5 till May 19.
- Rajasthan has decided to implement a strict lockdown in the state from May 10 to 24 though curbs continue to be in place since last month.
- Jharkhand had extended the lockdown-like restrictions till May 13. The restrictions were first imposed on April 22 as “Health Safety Week”.
- Chhattisgarh has announced weekend lockdown while earlier allowing district collectors to extend local lockdowns till May 15.
- Punjab has imposed extensive curbs, in addition to measures like a weekend lockdown and night curfew till May 15.
- Haryana has extended the lockdown till May 17 from May 3. Earlier, weekend curfew was enforced in nine districts.
- Chandigarh administration has also imposed weekend lockdowns.
- Madhya Pradesh has imposed ‘Janta curfew’ till May 15 with only essential services allowed.
- Gujarat has imposed night curfew (from 8 PM to 6 AM) and other day-time restrictions in 36 cities till May 12.
- Maharashtra had imposed lockdown-like curbs on April 5 coupled with prohibitory orders and restrictions on the movement of people. The curbs were later extended till May 15.
- Local lockdowns in district like Latur and Solapur have been imposed, and curbs tightened in Amravati, Akola and Yavatmal.
- Goa government to impose a curfew from May 9 to May 24. It lifted a four-day lockdown on Monday, except in tourist hotspots like Calangute and Candolim in North Goa, though restrictions were continuing.
- West Bengal has since last week imposed extensive curbs including ban on all kinds of gatherings.
- Assam advanced the night curfew to 6 PM from the current 8 PM with restrictions imposed on the movement of people at public places from Wednesday. Night curfew was imposed on April 27 till May seven.
- Nagaland has imposed partial lockdown with stricter rules from April 30 to May 14.
- Mizoram government has announced seven-day complete lockdown from 4 AM of May 10 to 4 AM of May 17.
- Arunachal Pradesh has imposed night curfew — from 6.30 pm to 5 am — for the entire month starting Saturday.
- Manipur government has imposed curfew in seven districts from May 8 till May 17.
Sikkim imposed lockdown-like restrictions till May 16. - Jammu and Kashmir administration has imposed lockdown-like restrictions till May 10.
Uttarakhand has reimposed several restrictions including night curfew. Uttarakhand - government has decided to impose ‘COVID Curfew’ between 6 am on May 11 and 6 am on May 18 across the state to contain the spread of the disease.
- Himachal Pradesh has imposed lockdown or “corona curfew” in the state from May 7 to May 16.
- Kerala has lockdown from May 8 to May 16.
- Tamil Nadu is under lockdown from May 10 to May 24.
- Puducherry has extended lockdown from May 10 to May 24.
- Maharashtra, Karnataka and Delhi are among 10 states that account for 71.75 per cent of the 4,03,738 new COVID-19 cases registered in a day, the Union Health Ministry said in its Sunday morning update.
The other states in the list of 10 are Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Uttar Pradesh, Andhra Pradesh, West Bengal, Rajasthan, and Haryana.
