Bhubaneswar: The Odisha Government today extended lockdown to nine more districts to fight the highly contagious Coronavirus (COVID-19).
The State Government extended lockdown to full districts of Puri, Nayagarh, Jagatsinghpur, Jajpur, Bhadrak, Balasore, Dhenkanal, Sambalpur, Jharsuguda districts from tomorrow morning till 9pm 29 March.
With this, Odisha locks down more than 3 crore population covering 14 districts.
In addition to this two more major changes are Railway station and bus stands are removed form the exempted category for internal transport and eateries located in them, said an official statement.
Now railways and bus transport is completely blocked in the entire state, it added.
Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik has appealed the people to stay at home and keep virus at bay.