Covid spike: Shops to open in staggered manner in Bihar's Bhagalpur

BHAGALPUR: With Covid cases increasing, the Bhagalpur district administration has ordered staggered opening of markets and business establishments outside the containment zones till May 15. Shops and business establishments in the containment zones have been asked keep their shutters down till further orders.
Bhagalpur DM Subrat Kumar Sen issued fresh orders on Monday for scattered opening of business establishments with immediate effect.Fruits, vegetables, fish, egg and other eatables can be sold between 6am and 11am. Similarly, shops selling building construction materials like cement, sand, stone chips, paints and hardware materials have been asked to function between 6am and 11am.
Shops selling electronic and electrical goods, optical stores, books and stationeries, mobiles, computers, automobiles, cycles, furniture and other articles have been asked to operate between 11am and 2pm. Ready-made garment, cloth, jewellery and sports article shops will open between 2pm and 6pm.
Medicine and surgical shops, kirana shops, milk booths and shops selling agriculture products have been exempted from the restrictions. Essential services like banking, postal, health, fire extinguishing services, ambulance, transport, police and e-commerce have also been exempted from the order.