COVID-19: Nagpur lockdown, bans on venturing out and one month jail for those who violate

The Nagpur administration has ordered people to not move out on roads as a preventive step to stop the spread of coronavirus. Those who violate the order will face a month in jail, as the state has invoked sections of Epidemic Disease Act 1897 in view of the COVID-19 outbreak.

The Uddhav Thackeray government on Friday announced lockdown in



Mumbai, Pune, Nagpur and Pimpri Chinchwad till March 31 as an immediate measure to control further spread of novel coronavirus pandemic. 

Saturday morning saw less than usual traffic Maharashtra's Western Express Highway in Mumbai in wake of the government's advise to avoid all non-essential travel as a measure to combat CoronavirusPandemic.