India to keep restrictions in big cities under staggered exit from lockdown
NEW DELHI/MUMBAI - India said on Friday it would extend its nationwide coronavirus lockdown for another two weeks after May 4, but would allow “considerable relaxations” in lower-risk districts marked as green and orange zones.
There will be no restriction on movement of goods between states and on the manufacturing and distribution of essential items, the ministry said. In government letter, sent by Health Secretary Preeti Sudan to regional officials and reviewed by Reuters, the authorities set out plans to map the country into red, orange and green zones, depending on the local severity of the outbreak.
The classifications would be"dynamic" and updated at least weekly as conditions change, Ms Sudan wrote.The official toll is far lower than in the United States and many European countries, although the true extent of infection may be higher in a country where millions of people do not have access to sufficient healthcare.
In one of the first big efforts to help migrants return, a train departed on Friday carrying people marooned in the southern state of Telangana to the eastern state of Jharkhand, Reuters partner ANI reported.
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