Delhi police personnel check vehicles at Vijay Chowk (ANI photo)
NEW DELHI: In an indication that the Covid situation remains serious, the “unlocking” process has been paused with fresh guidelines stating that the lockdown shall continue to be strictly implemented in all containment zones till July 31 even as opening of schools & colleges, international passenger flights, Metro rail services, cinema halls, gymnasiums as well as social, political and religious congregations remain barred.
The Unlock 2.0 guidelines issued by the home ministry on Monday under the Disaster Management Act, 2005 for the next one month have further relaxed the night curfew timings to between 10pm and 5am instead of 9pm to 5am earlier. “…Relaxations in night curfew have been given for seamless operation of industrial units in multiple shifts, movement of persons and goods on national and state highways, loading and unloading of cargo and movement of persons to their destinations after disembarking from buses, trains and airplanes,” the home ministry said in a press release.
In an important change, there shall be no restriction on inter-state and intra-state movement of persons & goods and no separate “permission/ approval/e-permit” will be required for such movement. In the previous guidelines, the MHA had allowed s