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CHENNAI: Tamil Nadu on Friday tightened its pandemic lockdown protocol by reducing business hours for grocery, vegetable, meat and fish shops by two hours and imposing total ban on other business outlets.
These shops will now be open only between 6am and 10am. Ecommerce entities like Dunzo can deliver goods only till 10am. The fresh curbs will come into effect at 6am on Saturday.
Also, there will be no more teashops in neighbourhoods and on roads, as they too have been banned totally, along with pavement sale of vegetables, fruits and flowers.
Since May 10 these shops had been allowed to remain open till noon.