Chandigarh: The Haryana authorities on Sunday (June 6) prolonged the lockdown clamped within the state to curb the unfold of the COVID-19 by one other week till June 14.
The state authorities additionally introduced further relaxations in several restrictions that had been in place earlier, in accordance to information company PTI.
This is the fifth extension of the lockdown in Haryana because the starting of the second wave of COVID-19.
In the earlier announcement Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar had mentioned on May 30, “We have decided to extend COVID lockdown till June 7. Shops can now operate from 9 am to 3 pm. Shopkeepers must follow an odd-even formula. Educational institutions will remain closed till June 15. Night curfew will continue from 10 pm to 5 am.”
While additional relaxations relating to opening of retailers and procuring malls have been given, spiritual locations are additionally allowed to open now with 21 folks at a time, company workplaces are permitted to open with 50 per cent attendance after adopting social distancing norms, gatherings of up to 21 individuals are allowed at weddings, funerals and cremations from the sooner 11.
No motion of the “barat” procession, nevertheless, is allowed for marriages.
The Haryana authorities had imposed the lockdown within the state on May 3 in view of the prevailing COVID state of affairs.