India
oi-Madhuri Adnal
New Delhi/Mumbai, Jun 5: With COVID cases declining, Delhi will see further relaxation in lockdown, including reopening of markets and malls and resumption of metro services, from June 7 while Maharashtra will implement a five-level plan to ease curbs based on weekly positivity rate and occupancy of oxygen beds in districts.
Even as the COVID situation has relatively improved in most of the northern and western states, southern and eastern parts of the country are still reporting a high number of cases. Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M K Stalin announced the extension of the lockdown by a week till June 14 with some easing of restrictions from Monday, except in 11 districts where the number of new cases reported was still high.
Earlier, neighbouring Karnataka had extended the lockdown till June 14.
Himachal Pradesh and Goa also extended the ”Corona curfew” till June 14.
In Goa, shops…