Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao on Sunday announced that the ongoing lockdown in the state has been extended to May 7m and said that it will be implemented in a tougher manner.

Operation of food delivery services like Zomato and Swiggy have also been banned in the state until further notice, the chief minister said.

The ban would mean that the food aggregators would remain offline in Hyderabad, one of the biggest markets for these services. The decision comes just days after a food delivery person was found infected with coronavirus in Delhi, and 72 families in south Delhi that had to be quarantined.

Not taking any chances, KCR said that the restriction in the state would not be relaxed at all, and the same lockdown rules that are in place till now will be followed till May 7.

The state’s approach differs from the central government, which has eased the restrictions in non-hotspot zones starting Monday.

Earlier, Punjab and Delhi also announced that curbs would not be relaxed even as the Centre had issued guidelines for partial respite from the lockdown from Monday.