Chennai: Tamilnadu Revenue Minister R B Udhayakumar today said Chief Minister Edappadi K Palaniswami wiil soon announce relaxations of Covid-19 lockdown restrictions in the State.
Speaking to reporters, he said, “Chief Secretary has discussed with officials (about relaxations). The Chief Minister will take an appropriate decision and announce it in a day or two.”
Karnataka has abolished all travel restrictions brought in after the outbreak of Covid-19 in late March. There is no need to obtain an e-pass or stay in 14-day quarantine. Hand-stamping, too, has been scrapped.
The relaxations were announced after the Ministry of Home Affairs wrote to states last week that there cannot be “restriction on inter-State and intra-State movement”, as stipulated in the July 29 guidelines for Unlock-3.
MHA officials had then said that Karnataka, Maharashtra, and Tamilnadu had been frequently sealing inter-state or inter-district borders in the name of containing the spread of the coronavirus, leading to disruption of supply chains across the country.