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PM Modi announces lockdown 4, guidelines before May 18

PM Modi announces lockdown 4, guidelines before May 18

TIL Desk/National/New Delhi/ There were clear indications of extension of the COVID-19-induced lockdown with Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday saying that “lockdown-4” will have completely different contours and rules.

On the basis of recommendations received from states, new rules will be framed, and information about it will be conveyed before May 18, Modi said in his address to the nation.

The prime minister said the fourth phase of the lockdown, which he described as “lockdown-4”, will have completely different contours and will have a new set of rules.

In a video conference with chief ministers on Monday, Modi had said he is of the “firm view that the measures needed in the first phase of lockdown were not needed during the second phase and similarly, measures needed in the third phase are not needed in the fourth.” The country has been under lockdown since March 25 and the third phase ends on May 17.

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