THE SPREAD OF COVID-19
Total confirmed cases including new cases added on May 5
UT J&K
741
Punjab
1451 219
Haryana
548
DELHI
5104 206 1468
Rajasthan
3127
Gujarat
15 111 320 6254 450 1381
shops will open for an extra hour, the official said. In Karnataka, the estimated excise revenue on Tuesday was ₹197 crore as compared to ₹45 crore earned on Monday. The average for a day in 2018-19 was ₹54 crore, official estimates showed. Some states, such as West Bengal and Karnataka, issued orders to limit the sale of liquor bottles. In both the states, a person is entitled to buy only two bottles of distilled spirits and six bottles of beer.
In Karnataka, where a similar order was issued on Monday morning, action was taken against a vend owner who sold more than the prescribed bottles to a customer, who put out his ₹52,000 liquor bill on social media.
Kerala
503
New cases
enforce social distancing norms, local administrations deployed additional police personnel at liquor vends and, in some places, such as Mumbai, bouncers were hired to prevent unruly behaviour and jostling among customers. However, in some places in Karnataka and Uttar Pradesh, police had to use mild force to disperse the crowds. UP’S excise secretary, Sanjay Bhoosreddy, said the sale of liquor has been smooth and the government expects the revenue to increase in the coming days.
In Andhra Pradesh, where liquor is 75% costlier than it was in the pre-lockdown period, people scrambled to buy alcohol despite the price hike even as
Recovered cases
UT Ladakh
45
Himachal Pradesh
41
Chandigarh
115
Uttarakhand
61
Uttar Pradesh
2880
Bihar
535
Jharkhand
125
Odisha
176
Andhra Pradesh
1717 67 589
Puducherry
10 4 0 13 1 114 10 7 0
Tamil Nadu
34 21 6 4058 508 1485
women in Nellore and Visakhapatnam districts protests at opening of the shops. Out of 3,468 retail outlets, only around 500, located in red zones and containment areas of orange districts and in malls, remained closed. “The steep hike in liquor prices is to discourage the consumption of alcohol and number of shops would also be slashed by month end,” the official release said.
Officials said there was huge rush at liquor vends in districts bordering Kerala, Tamil Nadu and Telangana, which are yet to resume the sales. Police on Monday had to carry out a mild lathicharge to shoo away more than 2000 people who crossed over into Karnataka through porous borto
Arunachal Pradesh
101
Manipur
202
Mizoram
101
Tripura
42 13
West Bengal
1344 264
Andaman and Nicobar
33 0 32
Total number of cases across India*
Deaths due to Covid-19 across India
85
ders to purchase liquor.
In Rajasthan, where excise duty was increased by 10% , shops opened late as police tried to control unruly crowds. There were also complaints of overcharging from Jaipur and Chandigarh.
Liquor sales in Goa were devoid of incident because of the state’s high number of liquor dealers per capita -- 3,000 liquor retailers and 11,000 licensed liquor vendors, a bulk of whom are serving liquor through a bar or restaurant and cannot currently reopen. The shops will open in MP on Wednesday and in Punjab on Thursday. Tamil Nadu also announced that liquor vends will not open in Chennai till further notice .