evaluating and analyzing the effectiveness and the need of lockdown as strategy.
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the lockdown was relaxed to partial lockdown. Some increase in covid-19 cases was observed with some deaths and recovery. Therefore, the lockdown was relaxed further to smart lockdown. In this phase some shops and businesses were reopened with the idea to allow the daily wage labor to work. The decision was welcomed, but a big increase was observed in covide-19 cases along with increase in deaths and recoveries. Data revealed that people with the age of 20-34 years were infected the most, while death rate was high in old age. As labor community was affected the most during forced lockdown, therefore, was not an affordable option. To make the smart lockdown continue in effective manner, financial assistance of Rs. 12000/-was given to the labor community. It was concluded that the smart lockdown along with financial assistance, was effective to some extent, but can't be presented as preventive measure against COVID-19. It was recommended to keep the smart lockdown continue along with force-lockdown in vulnerable areas. Also arrange and manage quarantine and isolation facilities for the vulnerable and infected groups respectively till the arrival of proper treatment.