Coimbatore: As many as 1,000 police personnel are to be deployed in the city to enforce a 14-day total lockdown from Monday.
While only takeaway service will be allowed in hotels till 9pm, bakeries, grocery shops, vegetable markets could function till noon.
Police will conduct vehicle checks at 12 check posts and 40 temporary picketings. Four deputy commissioners of police (DCs), 13 assistant commissioners of police (ACPs), inspectors of police and sub-inspectors of police also will be on patrol. Police have identified 75 important junctions, including Range Gowder Street, Gandhipuram, Lakshmi Mills junction and railway stations, and fixed public addressing (PA) systems there. Pre-recorded voices will be aired to create awareness about the Covid-19 in these junctions.