CM Pinarayi to meet retail sector to discuss demand to open on all days for extended hours
The Hindu
The Kerala Vyapara Vyvasaya Ekopana Samathi will seek easing of COVID-19 restrictions ahead of the Bakrid-Muharram-Onam shopping season.
Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan will meet retail traders’ association representatives here on Friday to discuss whether the State’s current COVID-19 situation, including the unyieldingly high test positivity rate (10% and above), allowed the administration to permit shops to open on all weekdays for business. The government has currently restricted non-essential retail trade to alternate weekdays. It has limited opening hours to 8 p.m. Moreover, it has imposed a State-wide lockdown on weekends. The Kerala Vyapara Vyvasaya Ekopana Samathi (KVVES), the most prominent traders’ association, will seek easing of COVID-19 restriction that would allow traders to open on all days ahead of the Bakrid-Muharram-Onam shopping season.
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