K’taka to come out with lockdown 4.0 guidelines tomorrow
Team Udayavani, May 17, 2020, 9:06 PM IST
Bengaluru: Karnataka on Monday will come out with a new set of guidelines for COVID-19 lockdown 4.0 till this month end after extending existing measures for two days on Sunday.
The existing guidelines will continue until further orders or till May 19 midnight, which ever is first, the state government’s order said.
According to official sources, the extension for the short period was done as the state government was waiting for lockdown 4. 0 guidelines from the centre.
The state will come out with its measures for the next phase of lockdown on Monday, following the centre deciding to extend the lockdown till May 31 with a new set of guidelines, giving states and union territories powers for delineation of Red, Green and Orange Zones as per COVID-19 situation, they said.
Chief Minister B S Yediyurappa has convened a meeting of Ministers and senior officers at 11 am on Monday to discuss the guidelines issued by Government of India for lockdown 4.0 at Vidhana Soudha, the state secretariat here, his office said in a release.
The steps to be taken and the guidelines to be issued for the state will be discussed and finalised in this meeting, it said.
The nationwide lockdown was initially imposed from March 25 to April 14, then extended to May 3 and again to May 17 to prevent the spread of the novel coronavirus.
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