74% People Want The Ongoing Lockdown To Be Continued Till May 31 In TN

84% of residents of Tamil Nadu support continuing lockdown till May 31; 1 in 3 in favor of permitting businesses to do home deliveries any time – tells the LocalCircles’ Survey. The ongoing two-week lockdown in Tamil Nadu is to end on 24th May.

Chennai: To curb the rampant spread of the second wave of malignant coronavirus, the state has imposed a 14-day complete lockdown with certain timings fixed for stand-alone shops for essentials, platform vendors, eCommerce deliveries allowing the medical shops and indigenous medical stores to continue to function for normal hours, ends on May 24.

In the wake of the incessantly increasing number of COVID active cases and deaths; people are cautious about the government lifting the lockdown in the state.

In a state-level online survey conducted by LocalCircles – 84% of the residents in the state want the lockdown restrictions to continue till May 31^st; 1 in 3 in favor of permitting retail businesses and online sites to do home deliveries of all other products apart from the essentials.

Small businesses in the state indicate an urgent need to have a model that enables them to operate safely despite COVID.

Following the online classes, many residents say, they need to buy products related to children’s education like books, stationery, equipment, etc., and work from home equipment, appliances, and other home needs in the next 3 months through a safe mode of delivery.

The residents and small businesses of Tamil Nadu in the last 2 weeks have been expressing their views and opinion via various city and state-level online communities on LocalCircles, suggesting that consumer convenience and business resumption must be given due priority during the lockdown. While consumers are keen that home delivery of all goods must be permitted so they can procure items beyond essentials like groceries and medicines, many small businesses want that they should be allowed to function in home-delivery mode only during the lockdown.

 

As per the survey, the residents and small businesses of Tamil Nadu in the last 2 weeks have been expressing their views and opinion via various city and state-level online communities on LocalCircles, suggesting that consumer convenience and business resumption must be given due priority during the lockdown.

 

According to the survey analysis, gadgets are the top category in the households apart from the products related to children’s education in Tamil Nadu that people will have a need to purchase in the next 3 months.