Chennai, India: The Tamil Nadu government on Wednesday ( Jan. 5) announced that it will impose a complete lockdown every Sunday to curb the rising number of Covid-19 cases, dominated by the Omicron variant. Moreover, a night curfew has been imposed starting Thursday, January 6, from 10 pm to 5 am.
The Sunday lockdown will begin from January 9 and non-essential activities will be completely banned. However, the state government has permitted restaurants to operate food delivery services on the lockdown days between 7 am and 10 pm.
Several other restrictions including the closure of creche, playschools, coaching centres have also been imposed.
There will be no classes for kindergarten. Online classes will be conducted for students from classes 1 to 9 and physical classes for students of classes 10 to 12, the government stated.
Moreover, public buses, metro and local trains will run on 50 per cent of the seating capacity. Amusement parks will be closed on all days, while people will be allowed to walk on beaches with proper Covid-19 norms.
The government decided to close all places of worship from Friday to Sunday to avoid crowding and all Pongal-related activities have been put off.
According to reports, the state government will also conduct mega vaccination camps every Saturday.
