Rickshaw pullers wait for customers on the Mahatma Gandhi Road in Ranchi on Tuesday RANCHI: With the second week of the Swasthya Suraksha Saptah (health safety week) involving several curbs on citizens nearing an end on May 6, various trade bodies and other associations have demanded further extension of the restrictions to slow down the Covid pandemic. It may be stated here that the state government had enforced the health safety week on April 22 and extended it further by a week on April 29. Meanwhile, the infection rate, which was at 13% on April 21, rose to 15% on May 3. Chief Minister Hemant Soren had recently said that the daily spike in cases has stabilised while the number of recovery has improved significantly. Speaking on the issue, Federation of Jharkhand Chambers of Commerce and Industries president Pravin Jain Chhabra said that the prevailing restrictions should be extended by at least a week again.