10-day lockdown in Telangana from May 12: Huge rush seen outside liquor shops

Hyderabad: The Telangana Cabinet on Tuesday (May 11) determined to impose a 10-day lockdown starting May 12 from 10 am to stop additional unfold of COVID-19, with 4 hours leisure in the morning. The Chief Minister Ok Chandrashekhar Rao-led cupboard assembly, which was held at Pragathi Bhavan has determined to provide a leisure interval from 6 am to 10 am for the individuals for his or her common actions and wishes, an official launch stated. The Cabinet additionally determined to ask world tenders to obtain the COVID-19 vaccines on a conflict footing, it stated.

As quickly because the lockdown information got here out, tipplers thronged liquor shops to purchase sufficient shares to final for a while. Serpentine queues have been witnessed at many shops right here as social distancing norms allegedly went for a toss.

All liquor shops in the state will stay open from 6 am to 10 am through the lockdown interval. “Shop owners should immediately put up boards displaying the information to control the crowd,” stated the Minister of Excise division. 

All works associated to agriculture produce, allied sectors, works undertaken with agriculture machines, operating of rice mills, transport of the paddy and rice, supplying paddy to FCI, fertiliser and seeds shops and manufacturing corporations and different agri-based sectors are exempted from the lockdown. “The State Cabinet will meet again on May 20, would review the situation on the continuing of the lockdown and take a decision accordingly,” the discharge stated.

Transportation on National Highways might be allowed whereas petrol pumps could be allowed to function.

Telangana has over sixty thousand energetic COVID-19 instances and the quantity is rising with extra infections every day. Employees of pharmaceutical corporations, medical tools producers, pharma distributors and pharmacies, all varieties of medical and well being companies, authorities and personal hospitals, could be given particular passes and are allowed with their automobiles.

The Cabinet additionally determined to represent Committees with Ministers as Chairman in all of the districts, together with the Collector, District Medical and Health Officers, Drug Inspectors to conduct every day evaluation on the respective district headquarters on the pandemic. Chief Secretary Somesh Kumar will make it possible for required medicines, oxygen and injections like Remdesivir can be found for hospitals together with non-public ones.

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