Tribune News Service
Chandigarh, May 30
The Haryana Government has extended the lockdown for another week (till June 7), while allowing shopping malls to open with limited footfall.
Addressing a press conference digitally, Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar said the “Mahamari alert, Surakshit Haryana” had been extended with more relaxations though the Covid situation had improved.
Cinemas, bars closed
- Cinemas, restaurants and bars inside shopping malls will remain closed
- Hotels have been allowed to remain open with the condition that no banquet/conferences will be permitted
- Restaurants and bars in hotels will remain closed
The shops would now be allowed to open from 9 am to 3 pm on odd-even basis. The earlier timings were from 7 am to 12 noon.
The shopping malls would now be allowed to open from 10 am to 6 pm with one customer per 25 sq feet area, he said. “In a 1,000 sq feet mall, 40 persons would be allowed at a time,” he added.
“Customers would be allowed inside malls for only a limited duration. At no point in time, the total number of customers inside the mall should exceed the prescribed limit,” he added.
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