Liquor shops to schools: What's open, what's not as India extends lockdown

Districts will be tagged as red, green and orange zones based on severity of coronavirus cases in extended lockdown.

India has extended a nationwide lockdown for another two weeks to contain the coronavirus outbreak. The home ministry issued new guidelines to regulate life and work in this period, based on districts divided into red ( coronavirus hotspot), green and orange zones.

Here are key things to know about life and work under two more weeks of lockdown, according to guidelines issued by the ministry:

The green zones will be districts with either zero confirmed cases till date; or, no confirmed case in the last 21 days. The classification of districts as red zones will take into account the total