Bhubaneswar: The Odisha government has extended the state-wide lockdown by 16 more days till 17 June to check the surge of COVID-19.
People can buy the essentials between 7 am and 11 am by walking to the nearby markets on weekdays. However, there will be a complete shutdown on Saturdays and Sundays with only hospitals and medical outlets being allowed to operate.
If you are coming to Odisha from other states in a personal or hired vehicle, train, buses, air or waterways, you have to produce Rapid Antigen Test (RAT) (-ve)/ RT PCR (-ve) report obtained within 48 hours or final vaccination certificate, the government notification issued on Sunday said.
People coming without such reports will have to undergo seven days of mandatory home/institutional/paid quarantine.
Those found flouting COVID protocols and home quarantine guidelines will be quarantined in institutional facilities for seven days, it added.
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