Tribune News Service
New Delhi, May 31
With the country entering the first phase of unlock on Monday, Vice-President M Venkaiah Naidu today urged the people to act with care and responsibly in order to consolidate the gains of the 68-day nationwide lockdown imposed to check the spread of Covid-19 pandemic.
“The journey from Lockdown 1.0 to its fifth version, also called as Unlock 1, announced last night is a response of the national leadership to this justifiable demand for space from the people of the country. Tomorrow marks a new beginning towards recovering the lost space and to rebound from long confinement. It should be handled with care and responsibility by all,” he said in a Facebook post.
He observed that relaxations during Lockdown 4.0 resulted in the virus infection scaling a new peak almost every day since May 18 with Covid positive cases hitting a new daily peak of about 8,000 on the day Lockdown 5.0 along with Unlock-1 was announced. “This provided guidance for actions as the nation is set on the course of phased exit from confinement,” he said.
Noting that the number of people still subjected to restrictions under Lockdown 5.0 is very small and applicable to only about 6,000 containment zones as compared to the entire population residing in about 7 lakh villages and about 4,500 towns and cities confining themselves to homes.
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