The state government has made yet another change in the lockdown schedule for August. This is the fourth time that there has been a change in the lockdown dates. There won\u2019t be any lockdown on August 28, the state government authorities said in an official statement.<\/p>\n
The date was changed because of an earlier scheduled bank holiday and August 28 being a Friday, it would inconvenience people a lot, as banks will be closed during that weekend as well.<\/p>\n
After two days of complete lockdown this month \u2013 on August 5 and 8 \u2013 Bengal is preparing for next total lockdown across the state on August 20, Thursday.<\/p>\n
Here\u2019s the final lockdown dates for August 2020:<\/p>\n
August 5 (Wednesday)<\/strong><\/p>\n August 8 (Saturday)<\/strong><\/p>\n August 20 (Thursday)<\/p>\n August 21 (Friday)<\/p>\n August 27 (Thursday)<\/p>\n August 31 (Monday)<\/p>\n Already changes have been made three times due to \u201cfestivals and local community-base customs\u201d this month which were coinciding with the dates of lockdown announced earlier, and thus the dates were revised. The government has decided to impose a biweekly lockdown to contain the spread of COVID-19 after a sudden spike in the number of cases since the last two weeks of July.<\/p>\n [Cover image by Kamalika Sengupta]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Continuous shutdown for several days at a stretch would inconvenience people, said officials.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":279,"featured_media":9193,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_seo_keywords":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[383,378,246,346,371,49,301],"class_list":["post-10119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-new-bengal","tag-buffer-zones","tag-containment-zones","tag-coronavirus-in-india","tag-coronavirus-in-kolkata","tag-lockdown-in-india","tag-mamata-banerjee","tag-west-bengal-government"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/279"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10119"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10119\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}