Details on Thursday for life at level 3, says PM

Details on Thursday for life at level 3, says PM
Pattrick Smellie
The government will give much-awaited detail this Thursday on how and which businesses will be allowed to reopen if and when the national lockdown is lifted on April 22.Further assistance measures for business will be announced on Wednesday.While the country spent barely two days at alert level 3 before going to full lockdown on March 25, ministers have been thrashing out details with representatives of various sectors of the economy in anticipation of an announcement on April 20 that the country will start moving out of lockdown in the latter...

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