Covid-19 lockdown: UP defers manufacturing reboot in industrial hubs

Uttar Pradesh won't allow industries in 19 districts to resume work after they reported 10 new coronavirus cases, a day after the centre said states could let some businesses get back to work.

Notably, these 19 districts include nearly all the major industrial hubs of UP - Gautam Buddh Nagar (Noida), Agra, Lucknow, Kanpur, Meerut, Ghaziabad, Varanasi, Moradabad, Shamli, Bulandshahr, Firozabad, Saharanpur, Baghpat, Basti, Hapur, Bijnore, Sitapur, Rampur and Amroha.

The resumption of the industrial activities in the remaining 56 districts would also be under the vigil for adhering to the social distancing and lockdown norms. The respective district administrations