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Declaring that lockdown would continue in the districts having more than 10 cases, Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath said that it was necessary to follow the rules of lockdown and maintain social distancing to control the spread of coronavirus.
While addressing a high-level lockdown review meeting at his official residence here on Monday, the chief minister said that the safety cycle had to be maintained. He said that all the students who had been brought back from Kota should be kept in 14-day home quarantine and they should be asked to download the Aarogya App.
The chief minister laid emphasis on the protection of police personnel and medical staff, saying that the policemen should be equipped with gloves, masks and shields while on duty. Similarly, he said, the hospitals should have all the protective measures for medical staff engaged in treatment of COVID-19 patients.
Yogi directed officials to ensure that all the government medical colleges had testing labs. He said the districts hospital at divisional headquarters without medical colleges should also have testing labs.
Yogi said emergency services in hospitals should be started only after ensuring all protection equipment with coronavirus safety training to medical staff.
“Also, the common man should be trained in first aid under these conditions through master trainer,” he said, while instructing officials to prepare an action plan in this regard.
The chief minister said that those engaged in door-to-door delivery should also be checked and asked to wear masks. He said that those coming from other places should be tested and pool testing should be encouraged.
Yogi said that the committee set up to ensure employment to labourers who had returned to the state should convene its meeting at the earliest. “The committee should prepare an action plan for exploring job creation for labourers, particularly in National Livelihood Mission and MNREGA,” he said.
He reminded officials that some industries were allowed to start operations but it should be made sure that social distancing and other protective measures were in place. He also asked the principal secretary (rural development) to ensure that there was no potable water problem in Bundelkhand region. 
The chief minister said the expressway projects were also going to start with the rider of full safety measures. He asked the nodal officers for different states to solve problems of the natives of UP at the earliest.
The officers present in the meeting included Chief Secretary RK Tiwari, Agriculture Production Commissioner Alok Sinha, Infrastructure and Industrial Development Commissioner Alok Tandon, Additional Chief Secretary (Home and Information) Awanish Kumar Awasthi, Additional Chief Secretary (Finance) Sanjiv Mittal, Additional Chief Secretary (Basic Education) Renuka Kumar, Director General of Police HC Awasthi, Principal Secretary (Health) Amit Mohan Prasad, Principal Secretaries to CM SP Goyal and Sanjay Prasad, Director Information Shishir and other senior officers.