Madhya Pradesh imposes lockdown in urban areas from Friday to Monday

April 8: In the backdrop of the spike in coronavirus situation, all urban areas in Madhya Pradesh will go into a lockdown from 6 pm on Friday to 6 am on Monday. “There will be a lockdown in all urban areas of the entire Madhya Pradesh from 6 pm on Friday till 6 am on Monday. We are also setting up containment zones in big cities. My intention has never been to impose a complete lockdown,” the Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan announced on Thursday.

The weekend-long curfew comes as fresh infections continue to explode – the state reported over 4,000 cases in the last 24 hours taking the total tally to over 3.18 lakh. Indore and Bhopal – the biggest cities in the state – continue to record the highest daily spike in cases.