District Collector Bharati Dasan and Senior Superintendent of Police Ajay Yadav jointly appealed to the public not to leave their homes unnecessarily during the weeklong lockdown in the capital Raipur starting on Wednesday.
Yadav urged the public to use online shopping to buy goods, an official statement said.
Police have put up 36 checkpoints in the Chhattisgarh capital to monitor the situation, it said.
No vehicles will be allowed on the roads. In emergency, people can dial 100 or 104.
Milkmen and newspaper hawkers can do their work between 6.00 and 9.30 am. Petrol pumps and LPG centres will function from 6.00 am to 3.00 pm.