Assam is set to return to pre-COVID days with the State Government deciding to withdraw all pandemic-related travel and movement restrictions. The relaxations come with a rider that the new instructions shall be liable for change if required in accordance with the new Standard Operating Procedure/guideline to be issued by the Central Government and eventual COVID-19 situation in the country or the state. Decline in daily positivity rates and increase in vaccination have boosted the confidence of the State Government to lift the COVID-19 curbs. Lifting the curbs is crucial to putting the state's economy back on the rails. Withdrawal of mandatory COVID testing at the airports, railway stations and road border points will facilitate arrival of more tourists to the state, which is critical to revive the tourism industry. It will also facilitate more business travel to the state and aid in exploration of opportunities for new investments. Withdrawal of mandatory testing for COVID for any patient coming for treatment to Medical College Hospital and other hospitals for emergency and out-patient services will save many lives by ensuring timely delivery of emergency and regular treatment and follow-up of needy patients suffering from various ailments. Relaxation of curbs in social and religious gatherings will revive livelihood avenues for many. Catering and decoration enterprises that have become integral part of social, religious, cultural, and political functions and events were among badly hit by pandemic-related curbs, leading to loss of livelihood for thousands of youths, majority of them being from rural Assam. With wedding season and Rongali Bihu festivities till April and electioneering for the municipal bodies' polls over the next fortnight, caterers and decorators are expected to be flooded with requisitions of services. The COVID curbs on attendance in socio-religious events led to curtailment of budget which depressed demand. Relaxations are expected to trigger fresh consumption demand at the wholesale and retail markets, but demands are expected to rise steadily. The pandemic eroded savings of many households in sustaining the economic downturn and it will take some time for those households to achieve the pre-pandemic days of surplus incomes and savings for spending in social-religious occasions. Arrival of more tourists and business visitors will revive the hospitality industry. Many hotels, tourist lodges and home stays suffered badly during the first and second wave due to travel restrictions, but demand started picking up following arrival of domestic tourists from other states with the number of double-vaccinated people gradually rising in the country. Revival of the tourism industry is expected to fuel demand for travel and thereby help tour operators who engage vehicle drivers to ferry tourists to various destinations, besides pick-up and dropping at airports, railway stations. Many of the drivers have been facing tough times in paying EMIs of bank loans with which they had purchased their vehicles and had to explore alternative livelihood to make both ends meet. As they start earning again from revival of the tourism industry, it will also trigger consumption demands in the state that will help retailers. Increased cash flow in the market will boost confidence of traders and investors for new commercial ventures, which eventually will create more livelihood avenues. More money flowing into rural households will also bring surplus money into farm families. This in turn will increase investment in the agriculture and horticulture sectors, which is critical to achieve the goals of both the Central and the State Government of increasing productivity and doubling farmers' income. Besides the rise in demand in the tourism sector, increase in spendings in socio-religious functions will trigger more demand for agricultural and horticultural produce and rising demand will make farmers to go for increased investment with money flowing in from tourism and other sectors after life returns to normalcy following relaxations in COVID curbs. The State Government will have to ensure that importance of vaccination does not get lost in the hurry of restoring normalcy as building individual immune system will remain crucial as long as COVID-19 continues to mutate into new variants. Rapid spread of the Omicron variant of COVID-19 demonstrated how new variants can be highly contagious, but countries have also learnt that vaccines have built the immune system to reduce the severity of the virus and are better prepared to deal with the pandemic situation. Death of immunity-compromised and persons with comorbidity still being reported, though declining significantly, should keep reminding everyone about the importance of vaccination, including the precaution or booster doses as advised by health experts to sustain the momentum of going back into pre-COVID level of relaxations. The World Health Organisation has been laying emphasis on stopping spread of the virus and dropping the facemask after relaxation of curbs must be resisted. The State Government's decision to relax the curbs is a scientifically informed decision, but people must shoulder the responsibility of continuing to fight against the virus.