A cabinet meeting held on Wednesday decided to ease the lockdown by changing the modality to resume economic activities gradually.

Amid the growing pressure to resume economic activities from all corners, the government decided to allow the operation of businesses, industries and private vehicles on an odd-even basis in the districts that have recorded fewer cases of COVID-19.

Apart from this, the following services are open and activities can be done from today.

1. All health services
2. Transportation and sale of medicine, foodstuff and beverages, fruits and vegetables, dairy products,egg, fish and meat, drinking water
3. Transportation and sale of petroleum products and waste management
4. Electricity, fire brigade, ambulance, information and communication and postal services.
5. Banks and financial institutions, cooperatives and insurance services
6. All agricultural and livestock related activities
7. Services related to seeds, fertilizers, agricultural tools and cold storage
8. Development projects (including private operations)
9. Construction industries (including private)
10.  Manufacturing industries
11. Excavation, collection, transportation and the sale of river products, minerals
12. Take away food services, restaurants
13. Hotels designated as quarantine facilities
14. Workshops repairing electronic devices, machinery items and vehicles
15. Stationery shops
16. Offices providing emergency services
17. Other Government, non-government and private officesand banks and financial institutions (with less than 50% staff attendance)

     

    What cannot be done?

    1. Educational institutions (schools, colleges, tuition centers, training centers)
    2. Shopping malls, department stores (except for those selling foodstuff)
    3. Cinema halls, patry palaces, dance bars and all types of recreation centers
    4. International and domestic flights (except those receiving prior permission)
    5. Cross border movement
    6. All types of festivals, fairs, exhibition, conferences and assemblies
    7. Meetings, seminars, trainings with more than 25 people
    8. Places of religious and social gathering
    9. Swimming pools, gym halls, health clubs including sauna, steam, massage centers, saloon and beauty parlors
    10. Sporting activities and performances in open grounds and stadiums
    11. All vehicles except those designated above