These services will be fully-functional after April 20 according
to news guidelines:
·
All Medical facilities
that include Aayush, health infrastructure related works.
·
Agriculture and
Horticulture related activities.
·
Financial sector
including bank branches and ATMs.
Experts had a view that
India should start opening up some economic activities as Coronavirus is not
the only reason that kills people. It can be anything from hunger to other
fatal diseases that require urgent medical intervention and lockdown doesn’t
help those causes. The decision to give relief in some restrictions of the
lockdown although with some restrictions after April 20 is a step seems to be
in that direction. However, PM Modi had hinted that if people will show
irresponsibility and try to put their community at risk from Coronavirus, the
restriction will be reimposed again.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday announced extension of the countrywide lockdown against the coronavirus pandemic until May 3, saying that the “stay-at-home” regimen will be enforced even more stringently at least until April 20.
Emphasising the continuing spread of the disease and that adherence to social distancing and lockdown alone can be the bulwark, the PM said tougher enforcement of the twin prescriptions could be extended beyond April 20 if intensive monitoring stretching down to “each block and and police station” showed violations or growth of infections
