Coronavirus India Updates: Total Cases Top 1.9 Lakh; Nearly 5,400 Dead
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Jun 02, 2020 07:27 am IST
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Published On Jun 02, 2020 07:27 am IST
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Last Updated On Jun 02, 2020 07:27 am IST
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#WATCH Delhi borders to be sealed for the next one week. Essential services are exempted. We will take a decision again in one week to open borders after suggestions from citizens: Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal. #COVID19 pic.twitter.com/kHDU4W6Qd4
— ANI (@ANI) June 1, 2020
The Haryana government on Sunday issued fresh guidelines for the next phase of lockdown and decided to open its interstate borders, including those with Delhi from June 1 and places of worship, hotels and malls from June 8.
Seeking to follow the Centre's guidelines for the next phase of lockdown, starting June 1, the state government also decided to allow interstate movement of people and goods.
As per the fresh guidelines issued by Haryana, the lockdown in containment zones will continue till June 30.
Chief Minister ML Khattar held a meeting with some of his senior ministers and officials on late Sunday evening and took a call on the Centre's fresh lockdown guidelines, termed as "Unlock 1.0".
It was decided in the meeting that there will be no restriction on inter-state and interdistrict movements of people and goods, a state government statement said after a three-hour meeting which ended late Sunday evening.
In the meeting, it was also decided to open all religious places, hotels, restaurants and other hospitality services, besides shopping malls from June 8 in accordance with the SOPs, which would be fixed later by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare.
Source: PTI
Global Update
Japan is considering easing entry restrictions on people from four countries in Asia-Pacific that have had success in taming coronavirus outbreaks, according to a newspaper report. Wuhan, where the novel coronavirus was first reported, reported no asymptomatic cases on Sunday for the first time since the city started publishing data.
Total cases have topped 6.1 million with more than 371,000 dead.
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