Tamil Nadu govt extends Covid lockdown till July 19; shops allowed to open till 9 pm

 amil Nadu government on Saturday prolonged the continuing Covid-19 lockdown within the kingdom till July 19. The state government, however, eased certain restrictions in view of drop in each day instances.

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Tamil Nadu Chief Minister MK Stalin on Saturday extended the coronavirus-precipitated lockdown in the state until 6 am on July 19. However, the kingdom government has eased certain restrictions in view of drop in every day instances and has allowed stores to remain open until 9 pm from Monday.

Announcing graded easing of lockdown restrictions, the Tamil Nadu authorities said that recruitment tests carried out by the Central and country governments will now be authorized.

Additionally, although the country has no longer restarted inter-kingdom buses, bus offerings to Puducherry have now been allowed to operate.

Meanwhile, global air offerings (except for the ones authorized with the aid of the Central authorities), liquor bars, swimming pools, theaters, social and political public conferences, leisure activities, faculties, faculties, zoos will hold to remain close.

COVID SURGE IN TAMIL NADU

India mentioned 42,766 new cases of coronavirus within the past 24 hours, according to the statistics launched by means of the Union fitness ministry on Saturday morning. Tamil Nadu is a few of the top 5 states that have registered maximum each day cases, with three,039 clean Covid-19 cases stated on Friday.

Health ministry joint secretary Lav Agarwal on Friday stated that 80 in line with cent of the new instances of Covid 19 had been being suggested from 90 districts in 15 states and Union Territories.

Meanwhile, twelve districts in Tamil Nadu have registered over eighty five Covid-19 cases each day in the past one week.

The districts with excessive variety of instances registered in keeping with day include Chengalpattu, Chennai, Coimbatore, Erode, Namakkal, Nilgiris, Salem, Thanjavur, Tiruppur, Trichy, Thiruvanammali, Cuddalore.

CASES DIP AMID STRICT LOCKDOWN

The second wave of the pandemic hit Tamil Nadu in May and the nation registered a spike in instances in the direction of May-give up. Following the surge in Covid-19 cases, the nation government applied stringent lockdown measures to control the unfold of infection.

With the restrictions being implemented strictly, the nation has visible a drop in normal each day virus instances.

Tamil Nadu Health Minister Ma Subramanian stated, “The quantity of cases is lowering over the last few days. It became 3300 on July 7, and 3200 on July 8, and the range is simplest similarly decreasing on July nine as properly.”

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The country authorities on Saturday comfortable positive curbs with the drop in instances, but has cautioned that Covid-19 protocols still needs to be observed, which incorporates sporting face masks and maintaining social distance.

COVID CASES ON SATURDAY

Tamil Nadu recorded 2,914 fresh instances of coronavirus on Saturday, taking the overall case tally inside the nation to twenty-five,sixteen,011. Coimbatore said 338 new instances of Covid-19, even as Chennai and Erode recorded 174 and 215 new instances respectively.

Tamil Nadu additionally noticed forty nine human beings succumb to the contamination in the past 24 hours. With this, the overall loss of life toll in the nation established to 33,371.

Currently, there are 32,767 energetic cases of Covid-19 inside the nation.