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While milk retailers and medical shops can stay open, all different retailers, together with these promoting fruits, greens and grocery objects, will stay closed in a bid to minimise human contact to interrupt the chain of the viral an infection.
- PTI
- Last Updated: May 7, 2020, 12:00 AM IST
Ahmedabad: To management the unfold of coronavirus within the worst-hit Ahmedabad metropolis, civic authorities on Wednesday ordered the closure of all of the retailers besides these promoting milk and medicines for per week, triggering panic shopping for of grocery objects and greens by residents.
As per the order signed by in-charge municipal commissioner Mukesh Kumar, the retailers will stay closed from May 7 midnight until 6 am on May 15.
While milk retailers and medical shops can stay open, all different retailers, together with these promoting fruits, greens and grocery objects, will stay closed in a bid to minimise human contact to interrupt the chain of the viral an infection, the order stated.
The sale of greens, fruits and grocery objects was earlier allowed in the course of the lockdown.
Kumar was made in-charge municipal commissioner on Tuesday after civic chief Vijay Nehra went on a 14-day dwelling quarantine as he had come into contact with some coronavirus-positive individuals.
“In view of the rising number of COVID-19 cases, it is necessary in the public interest to take adequate steps,” Kumar stated.
Meanwhile, panicked residents got here out in giant numbers to purchase groceries and greens.
Earlier, a number of vegetable distributors examined optimistic for coronavirus within the metropolis, prompting authorities to display screen all of the distributors earlier than permitting them to do enterprise.
Ahmedabad accounts for 4,358 coronavirus optimistic circumstances of the overall 6,245 circumstances in Gujarat and 273 of the overall 368 fatalities.
