The Telangana government extended the lockdown from Monday till June 9 with relaxations from 6 am to 1 pm every day, an official statement ...
The Telangana government extended the lockdown from Monday till June 9 with relaxations from 6 am to 1 pm every day, an official statement from the Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao’s office said, reported PTI. The state Cabinet met in Hyderabad on Sunday to discuss several matters, including the extension of the lockdown.
The government further extended the relaxation on movement till 2 pm so that those who stepped out of their homes can return. The lockdown would be strictest between 2 pm and 6 am.
Under the new guidelines, government offices, land and property transactions in registration offices and vehicle registration in transport offices would be allowed to operate, provided they maintain Covid-19 and lockdown relaxation norms, reported The Hindu.
Ahead of the Cabinet meeting, All India Majlis-e-Ittehad-ul-Muslimeen chief Asaduddin Owaisi urged Rao not to extend the lockdown. “It’s not a strategy to combat COVID-19. It appears as a ‘hard on pandemic’ strategy but all it does is destroy the lives of poor,” he tweeted. “As data shows, Covid cases were already reducing much much before lockdown was imposed on 12th May. It’s quite clear that it’s not lockdown that helped. It’s also clear that COVID can be combatted without lockdown.”
He also listed various measures to highlight that a lockdown was...
