A six-week regime of self-isolation in India, which was supposed to end on Monday, will run until may 25. The decision to extend the quarantine for another two weeks caused by disappointing statistics of the epidemic. Despite the introduction at the end of March hard lockdown, the number of cases in the first days of may has antirecord. However, the mode of isolation will become more flexible, allowing for breaks in those regions that have achieved the greatest success in combating the epidemic and appeared in the “green zone”. However, in a situation when the quarantine incurs milliard losses in the economy, constraints are loosened even in the capital Delhi are in the “red zone”.Another extension of the regime of self-isolation in the second populous country in the world, entered March 24, and expires on may 3, reported the Ministry of internal Affairs of India.”Despite the significant improvement in COVID-19 in the country, in accordance with the Law on disaster management from 2005, the government of India has ordered to prolong the state of isolation for another two-week period after may 4, 2020″,— reads the statement of the Ministry, which published the leading Indian media.Citing its decision to impose a quarantine before 15 April, which was then extended for another two weeks — until may 3, the government expects that during this period of two incubation periods, they will be able to break the chain of spread of the coronavirus.However, in the first days of may, despite all previous measures, the curve of distribution COVID-19 went up sharply. For two days in a row, India broke their own record for the number of cases that exceeded 2 thousand people a day.The average daily gains of the first week of may considerably exceeded indicators of the end of April. As a result, after the second quarantine period, the total number of cases exceeded the previously unthinkable psychological mark of 40 thousand people.”An absolute increase in the number of cases does not mean that the measures taken were ineffective. India is a huge country not only in territory and population, but the diversity of its regions. In this regard, the task of combating the pandemic it is infinitely more complex than in many other countries”,— said “Kommersant”, the Ambassador of India in Russia, Bala Venkatesh Varma. According to the head of the Indian Embassy, quarantine measures helped save thousands of lives, while in a number of States “have managed to break the chain of spread of coronavirus”.New two-week regime of self-isolation, which was introduced in the country until may 25, extends the ban on domestic air travel, travel around the country by rail and road transport. Remain closed all training and educational institutions, shopping malls, restaurants, hotels and sports clubs. As for industrial enterprisesstart-UPS, to resume work can only be those that are in regions minimally affected by the pandemic.Recall that, according to the rating Agency Acuite Ratings & Research Ltd, the loss of the Indian economy for the full day quarantine at the first stage amounted to $4.64 billion New phase mode isolation does not repeat a strict nationwide lockdown, in effect since March 24. As explained in its official statement, the interior Ministry of India, in the coming two weeks the country will be divided into three zones — “green”, “orange” and “red” — depending on the number of cases. In the “green zone” will include States and Union territories that have achieved the greatest success in fighting the pandemic — zero index in patients.One of the breaks in the “green zones” will be the resumption of public transport provided that the number of passengers in the cabin will not exceed half of the maximum capacity.In the dysfunctional “red zone” included regions, which account for the lion’s share of cases. The three leaders headed by the Central state of Maharashtra, where is the business capital of India, 12 million metropolis Mumbai. It Maharashtra produces more than half of the daily increase in cases across the country. On second place was situated on the West of Gujarat — the home state of Prime Minister of India Narendra modi, who became a “showcase of economic reforms” of the Indian government. Closes the top three of the Union territory of Delhi where the capital of the country.Noteworthy that in comparison with the situation on 15 April of the three leaders left the largest and most industrialized state in the South — Tamil Nadu, Delhi and moved from second to third place.As for the “orange zone”, it formed those regions in which the number of cases continues to grow but not as rapidly as in the “red”.However, some concessions were introduced even in the capital city of India, located in the “red zone”.So, resumed work shops, are allowed to move around the city by car, if the car is not more than two passengers (the implementation of this regulation controls the traffic police). In order to bring down the excessive demand and not to create places of a mass congestion of people, the government of Delhi has introduced a 70 percent “special tax coronavirus” on all sold retail spirits, and warned that it may re-close the liquor store.”We must be willing to live next to a coronavirus, we have to get used to it,” he formulated the task of a new phase, chief Minister of Delhi Arvind Kejriwal.Sergey Strokan
