Vijayawada: Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy told the PM at Monday’s video conference, the state will follow the Centre’s decision on the lock down. He left the decision to extend the lock down or go for graded exit after May 3 to the Centre.

He made a detailed presentation on containment measures undertaken by the Government of AP. Strict lock down has been enforced in the red zones and containment areas, the number of +ve cases in the state are less than the national average. We are granting permissions to certain industries and firms located in green zones by following the Centre’s guidelines. We will relax conditions in red zones and containment areas, he added. He further said that the test, trace and treatment plans were yielding results as they were confining the positive cases to isolation wards.