Following the increasing number of the positive cases of the novel coronavirus in India Prime Minister Narendra Modi imposed a nationwide lockdown in the third week of March.
The lockdown eventually got extended and now entered the third phase from the 4th of May as the second phase was supposed to get lifted on the 3rd of May with some relaxations given for the green and orange zones.
Now some media reports claim that the existing lockdown might again get extended till the month end of this month. It has been reported that the existing lockdown was will come to an end on the 17th of this month is likely to be extended.
It has been widely reported that the PMO gathered information about the situations in the state through the Intelligence sources and PM Modi held a review meeting with the key officials of the PMO.
The information states that a lack of strict implementation of lockdown resulted in the rise of COVID 19 in India reportedly.