Bengaluru: The Karnataka government has partially relaxed COVID-19 lockdown norms in the state allowing IT and IT-enabled services to operate with essential minimum staff and also certain construction activities, manufacturing of packaging materials, courier services, among others from Thursday.
The activities will be permitted only outside the COVID-19 containment zones identified by the government. There were reports of some large-scale traffic movement in some parts of the city this morning as lockdown curbs were relaxed. "To mitigate hardship to the public, select additional activities have been allowed,which will come into effect from 00.00 hours of April 23," Chief Secretary TM Vijay Bhaskar had said in an order on Wednesday.