Nagaland street vendor leaves fresh veggies and a jar for people to drop money

GUWAHATI: With no street vendors allowed during lockdown, a vegetable vendor from Kohima, Nagaland has come up with innovative ways of selling vegetables. The street vendor has left fresh veggies and a jar for people to drop money.

Meanwhile, as Nagaland’s first COVID-19 patient undergoes treatment, Nagaland’s Zion Hospital has been sealed where the patient was earlier admitted as an indoor patient.

Nurses, doctors and health workers have now been quarantined.

The state government has also sealed various areas including the patient’s residential area.

The patient had arrived in the State on an Air India flight from Kolkata on March 24.

Nagaland has also released 109 undertrials in keeping with Supreme Court’s directions to all States and Union Territories to constitute their respective high-level panels to determine prisoners who could be released on parole for four to six weeks to prevent overcrowding in jails to help prevent the spread of coronavirus.

In Nagaland prisoners were released from 11 jails.

The state houses 537 prisoners. A committee was formed to carry out the SC’s mandate.

The under trials released would be taken into custody if they try to threaten anybody who can be a witness or of any importance to the victim’s case, informed the committee.

Prime Minister Modi had urged people to follow lockdown measures until May 3.

“Friends, keeping all the suggestions in mind, it has been decided that the lockdown in India will have to be extended till 3^rd May. That means until 3^rd May, each and every one of us, will have to remain in the lockdown. During this time, we must continue maintaining discipline in the way we have been doing till now,” he said during his address to the nation at 10 am.

“Therefore, we have to be very vigilant about hot-spots. We will have to keep a close and strict watch on the places which run the risk of becoming hot-spots. The creation of new hot-spots will further challenge our hard work and penance. Hence, let us extend the strictness and austerity in the fight against Corona for the upcoming one week,” he added.

The lockdown was about to end on April 14.

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