Madhya Pradesh chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan on Thursday announced a 60-hour weekend lockdown in the urban areas of the state in the wake of rising daily cases of the coronavirus disease (Covid-19). The lockdown, Chouhan announced, will be in effect from 6pm on Friday to 6am on Monday. “I chaired a high-level review meeting over Covid-19. In all urban areas of Madhya Pradesh, a lockdown will be in effect from 6pm on Friday till 6am on Monday. Other areas where cases are rising, the crisis management group will decide an appropriate course of action. We will also come up with containment areas in major cities. Crisis management group will hold a meeting later in the day to decide on what to do in areas where the viral caseload is high,” the chief minister said in an interaction with the media.
