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21-day lockdown in India due to Coronvirus: Here's a list of what is open and what is shut
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21-day lockdown in India due to Coronvirus: Here's a list of what is open and what is shut

| @indiablooms | 24 Mar 2020, 05:48 pm

New Delhi/IBNS: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday announced a complete lockdown for 21 days starting midnight in India to combat the deadly Novel Coronavirus.

"From 12 midnight, there will be complete lockdown across the entire country. For the benefit of the country, there will be a complete lockdown in every nook and corner of India. People are not allowed to step outside their homes from midnight 12," PM Modi announced in his second address to the nation over the Coronavirus spread.

Modi said people should forget about stepping out of the home during this period. "The only and only work you should do is staying at home," said he.

"If we don't take precautions in these 21 days, we will go back by 21 years and won't be able to recover ever. I am telling you this not as a PM but as a member of your family. Please stay indoors," urged the Prime Minister.

Modi warned that: "Your one step outside will invite Corona to your home."

Here is a complete list of what will be available and what will be exempted:

Sectors exempted from lockdown:

Banks, insurance offices, and ATMs

Essential services like sanitation, water supply, power

Hospitals and all related medical establishments, including manufacturing and distribution units, both in public and private sector, such as dispensaries, chemists, labs, clinics, nursing homes, ambulance

Transport for all medical personnel, nurses, paramedical staff, other hospital support

Shops, including ration shops (under PDS), dealing with food, groceries, fruits and vegetables, dairy and milk booths, meat and fish, animal fodder

Home delivery of food, medicines, medical equipment

Print and electronic media, telecommunications, internet services, broadcasting and cable services and IT-enabled services (for essential services)

Petrol pumps, LPG, petroleum and gas retail, storage outlets

Power generation, transmission and distribution units and services

Capital and debt market services as notified by SEBI

Cold storage and warehousing services

Private security services

Manufacturing units of essential commodities.

Production units, which require continuous process, after obtaining required permission from state government

Transport of essential goods, fire, law and order and emergency services

Hotels, homestays, lodges and motels accommodating tourists and those stranded due to lockdown, medical and emergency staff, air and sea crew, establishments used for quarantine.

In funerals, not more than 20 persons will be permitted.

Defence, central armed police forces, treasury

Public utilities like petroleum, CNG, LPG, PNG

Disaster management, post offices, police, home guards, fire and emergency services, prisons.

What will remain shut:

All transport, flights, trains, roadways

All government offices with exceptions

Commercial and private establishments

Industrial establishments

Hospitality establishments

Educational institutions

All places of worship, religious congregations

All social, political, sports, entertainment, academic, cultural, religious functions

Penalties for wrongdoing:

All persons who have arrived in India after Feb 15 and all directed quarantine will stay home. If they come out will face action that could mean up to six months in jail

Punishment for obstruction of duty: One to two years in jail or fine

Punishment for false claim: Up to two years in jail and fine

Punishment for false alarm: Up to one year in jail or with fine

 

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