The government, on Friday, extended the lockdown by another two weeks in the wake of rising cases of novel coronavirus in the country. The third stage of lockdown will start on May 4 and will end on May 17. However, this time some activities would be allowed after classifications of districts into 'Red', 'Orange' and 'Green' zones based on COVID-19 risk profiling
Prime Minister Narendra Modi first announced a 21-day nationwide lockdown on March 25, which was later extended by two more weeks to contain the virus spread.
All major urban centres, including Delhi and Mumbai, have been identified as 'red zones' or areas with large numbers of cases. The Centre formulated 733 zones which included 130 red zones, 284 orange zones, and 319 green zones.
Following the announcement of lockdown, people on social media resorted to humour to express grief regarding lockdown 3.0.#Lockdown3 is quite similar to a court case where the Judge is on leave & u are given a long date without any relief. pic.twitter.com/NLt6Z2pa2P
- Shivani Chopra (@ShivaniChopra_) May 2, 2020
Me making plans for 4may
lockdown 3- pic.twitter.com/lOLeK0Xte6
- Tweet Chor 👑 (@Pagal_aurat) May 1, 2020
Modiji to people's who have plans for the 4th may pic.twitter.com/DzychLh6sw
- Unnatiii (@Unnatiii1) May 1, 2020
People of Orange zone to Red zone#Lockdown3pic.twitter.com/GLsHsWsR33
- Ishan (@Metroflex14) May 2, 2020
Monalisa after lockdown #Lockdown3pic.twitter.com/WdTPlTI2DA
- Sourya Gupta (@sourya_tweets) May 1, 2020
Lockdown be like:#Lockdown3pic.twitter.com/0eIuqiUhh9
- CHEEKU 🌼 (@Okay_Bye___) May 1, 2020
After #Lockdown3
Meanwhile Every dean to their final year students pic.twitter.com/PmSi6Hgs1U
- 𝑺𝒖𝒔𝒉𝒊𝒍 𝑪𝒉𝒂𝒖𝒉𝒂𝒏 🇮🇳 (@SushilChauhann) May 1, 2020
2 minute silence for all those who thinks lockdown will end on 17th may pic.twitter.com/6ULJ8BvFg8#Lockdown3#Lockdownextention
- Ashu (@akki_army) May 1, 2020
- gujratihumor (@gujratihumor) May 1, 2020