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Covid-19 new restrictions: What’s open, what’s closed in Pune

A swamp of new Covid-19 protocols has caused confusion as to what's allowed and not allowed in Pune. Take a look at the full Covid-19 new protocols here.

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With a consistent uptick in daily cases and fatalities, India’s covid-19 resurgence has hit Pune hard resulting in the city imposing strict restrictions for a week from April 3. To top this, Maharashtra introduced state wide restrictions till April 30, imposing complete lockdown on weekends from Friday 8 pm till Monday 7 am.

A swamp of new Covid-19 protocols has caused confusion as to what’s allowed and not allowed in the parameters of the city. We take a look at the new Covid-19 restrictions to be followed in Pune.

Things not allowed in Pune

  • All shops, Markets and Malls to remain close throughout the day except for essential services
  • Schools, Colleges and Coaching Classes
  • All private offices except for financial, Telecom, Electric supply, Pharmaceutical company offices and Industrial units
  • PMPML public transport bus service
  • No dine in at Eateries, Restaurants, Beer Bars
  • Cinema halls, Drama theatres and auditoriums
  • Amusement Parks, Water Parks, Video Game parlours
  • Gym, Swimming Pools, Sports Complex, Culbs
  • All religious places
  • Religious, Political, Social, Cultural functions
  • Swimming pool, club house and Gym in Housing societies
  • Prohibitory orders on no more than 5 people to move together or gather in any public place from 6 am to 6 pm
  • Rest of the period from 6 pm to 6 am no one to move in public place without valid reasons of by permission
  • Barber shops, Spas, Salons and Beauty Parlors

Things allowed in Pune

  • Essential commodity shops like Medical stores, Grocery, Vegetable shops, Maryed yard and vegetable market, Dairies and Milk delivery
  • Take away orders, Parcel service and home delivery of cooked food from Eateries, restaurants from 7 am to 8 pm
  • All government offices with 50 percent attendance
  • All financial, Telecom, Electric supply, Pharmaceutical company offices
  • Auto Rickshaw with 2 passengers, Taxi with 50 percent vehicle capacity, Private Buses only with full seating occupancy and no standing passengers
  • State Transport bus service, Railways, Air travel
  • Travel for Class Ten and Twelve students during examination
  • Coaching classes for competitive examinations with 50 percent sitting capacity
  • Marriages with maximum of 50 people
  • Funerals with maximum of 20 people
  • Residential hotels, lodges
  • Industrial units to run with normal capacity while making transport arrangement for staff
  • Newspaper printing and distribution
  • Pre-monsoon activities by local authorities
  • Transport of Goods
  • Agriculture related services
  • E-commerce
  • Accredited Media
  • Gardens to be opened only in the morning

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Ajay Jadhav is an Assistant Editor with The Indian Express, Pune. He writes on Infrastructure, Politics, Civic issues, Sustainable Development and related stuff. He is a trekker and a sports enthusiast. Ajay has written research articles on the Conservancy staff that created a nationwide impact in framing policy to improve the condition of workers handling waste.  Ajay has been consistently writing on politics and infrastructure. He brought to light the lack of basic infrastructure of school and hospital in the hometown of Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde even as two private helipads were developed by the leader who mostly commutes from Mumbai to Satara in helicopter. Ajay has been reporting on sustainable development initiatives that protects the environment while ensuring infrastructure development.  ... Read More


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