Travel to night curfew: Lockdown 5.0 rules aim to open up country

Home Ministry guidelines focus is on economy as containment zones stay under restrictions.

The government on Saturday extended a weeks-long lockdown to contain the coronavirus in places worst affected by the disease's outbreak, allowing "phased re-opening" elsewhere.

Here is what is allowed, and what is not, according to the union home ministry’s new guidelines called "Unlock 1".

• Religious places, hotels, restaurants and shopping malls will be allowed to reopen from June 8 in phase 1 under guidelines issued by the union health ministry.

• Schools, colleges, and other educational institutions will be opened in phase 2 "after consultations" with states and union territories (UT), according to the guidelines. A decision on reopening educational institutions would be