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Lockdown

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Lockdown meaning

The confinement of people in their own rooms (e.g., in a school) or cells (in a prison), or to their own homes or areas (e.g., in the case of a city- or nation-wide issue) as a security measure after or amid a disturbance or as a non-pharmaceutical intervention in a pandemic. | A contrivance to fasten logs together in rafting.

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The MCP Leader sees Mutharika ordering a lockdown if the virus enters the country but he told Mutharika to justify the lockdown and will need to tell poor Malawians how the government will support citizens during the lockdown.

This comes days after the Centre extended the nationwide lockdown by two more weeks beyond May 4. This is the third extension of lockdown since March 25, when the country was placed under complete lockdown for the first time for three-weeks.

Yes, Lagos can be on lockdown, Ogun can be on lockdown, Oyo State, yes, people have been saying have a total lockdown and then I have been asking them questions.

A circuit breaker is a temporary lockdown with a set end date, rather than an extended lockdown until cases drop past a certain point.

A day after he announced countrywide lockdown, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday said appealed to the citizens to extend help to nine families during the 21-day lockdown period if they can as the country battles the outbreak of coronavirus.

Airtel and Vodafone will offer free incoming calls until the last day of lockdown 2.0, May 3. Jio hasn’t announced the last day of this offer yet but we assume it should also be till the lockdown.

Akufo-Addo eased a three-week lockdown on Ghana’s two main cities, Accra and Kumasi, on April 19 amid concerns over a prolonged lockdown on the economy.

All 200 cars have been sent to the buyers' cities; however, the deliveries will begin only post lockdown or when, and if, it's allowed in the near future amidst lockdown.

And a stup.id man hh is calling for total lockdown, under5 lacks wisdom and understand of the matter at hand,he even failed to explain to the people of Zambia as to why he was calling for a lockdown, busy misleading people.

A second scenario in which a 28-day lockdown was imposed after five days of easing also showed that the number of infected people rose once the second lockdown was lifted.

A Shimla hoteliers’ delegation has requested Chief Minister Jai Ram Thakur to direct Employees State Insurance Corporation (ESIC) to pay salaries of hotels’ staff not only for the lockdown period but also for six months after the coronavirus lockdown.

At a time of crisis when India unites, the lockdown should not mean a lockdown of the rights of the working poor.

Bloomfield today floated the idea of tightening alert level 1 settings to increase the chances of avoiding moving back to lockdown or lockdown lite in the future.

Brown said it’s believed that the lockdown would be even more effective if there is more support for communities – support for isolation, more community engagement – and with stronger adherence to lockdown measures, and greater access to COVID-19 testing.

Covid 19 coronavirus: Daniel Andrews' lockdown exit plan slammedIn Australia, Melbourne residents will enjoy new freedoms from today as the city's harsh lockdown rules finally began to ease overnight - but not everyone is.

Culture Secretary Oliver Dowden has confirmed TV and film production will be able to continue during the lockdown period, and said further details on how the lockdown will affect the arts and sports sectors will be announced in the coming days.

DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 03 May) — The city government will ease its lockdown restrictions starting May 8 to allow private vehicles entry for 12 hours to pick up relatives who have been stranded since the lockdown on March 19.

Despite the lockdown order and restriction, water, electricity and other bills are still piling up for households to settle, thereby forcing people to disregard the lockdown order to look for money outside their homes.

Even now as the government start to ease lockdown the Chief Medical Advisor Chris shitty is already talking about plans for a second lockdown in winter and that we will be living with this virus for a long time to come.

Faced with this awful prospect, will he urge Premier Gladys to ease up on any lockdown in the way he repeatedly did to Victoria during its second lockdown?