Bhubaneswar: In view of visible decline in daily COVID-19 cases in Odisha, the State Government announced on Wednesday to resume the unlock process in phases which shall come effect from June 17.
According to the revised guidelines, the partial lockdown shall continue till 5.00 AM of July 1, 2021 from 5.00 AM of June 17. The activities allowed as per the guidelines shall not be allowed in the containment zones except for maintaining essential services including medical emergencies and law and order related duties.
The activities shall be withdrawn if any lockdown measures shall be found violated, added reports.
Following are activities that’s allowed:
- The vaccination shall continue in the concerned centres as notified by Health and Family Welfare Department.
- Persons those who require to undergo Covid testing shall be allowed to travel to the designated centres
- Home delivery by operators, online delivery of goods by e-commerce platforms
- Retailers of food and grocery items allowed for home delivery services
- Movement of pint, electronic and web media, IT and IT enabled services with a maximum of 50% staff, data and call centres with minimum staff
- Petrol pumps, LPG, petroleum and gas retail and storage outlets along with home delivery
- Newspaper delivery allowed from 5 am to 9 am.
- OMFED shops and milk booths dealing with milk/milk products/ breads shall operate within the stipulated time
- Restaurants and dhabas allowed for home delivery and take away services
- All health services (including AYUSH) to remain functional
- All the financial sector shall remain functional
- Public utilities such as railway, airport, sea port, oil and gas sector, postal services etc. Passenger train services to and from Puri shall remain suspended.
- Morning walk, jogging, cycling allowed from 6 am to 9 am
- Public transport by buses ( inter state and intra state) shall remain suspended till 5 am of July 1 with some exceptions
- Physical training of uniformed personnel shall be allowed with strict adherence
- Construction activities shall be allowed in both government and private sector
- Functioning of government/private , corporate and civil society offices
- Marriages shall be allowed with not more than 25 persons and not more than 20 persons for thread ceremony and funerals
Following are activities that’s not allowed:
- Buses for public transport
- All educational institutions
- Exhibitions/ trade fairs/ melas/ physical business meetings
- Taxis including auto rickshaws
- All cinema halls, gyms, parks, indoor amusement centres and similar places
- All malls, government and private swimming pools
- Jatra/ opera/ open air thatres
- Salons/ barber shop, spa, beauty parlour, etc
- All social/ political/ sports/ entertainment/ academic/ agricultural/ religious gatherings
- All religious places to remain close for public
- Indoor/ outdoor film shooting
- Daily and weekly haats to remain closed
Ms Kalinga