Curbs eased; teachers can go to schools

Govt. extends lockdown till July 31, allows reopening of Industrial Training Institutes

Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M.K. Stalin on Friday announced that admission and distribution of textbooks at schools would be allowed, even as the government extended the COVID-19 lockdown till 6 a.m. on July 31. In a statement, he announced that teachers would be allowed to go to schools for work. Industrial Training Institutes and industrial schools and typewriting and shorthand institutes would be allowed to reopen but only with 50% of their students and by following the public health measures. The ban on inter-State government and private bus transport (except to and from Puducherry), cinema halls, bars, swimming pools, social and political meetings with public participation, recreational, sports and cultural events, schools and colleges and zoos would continue.