Fact Check: Has Indian Government shared '5-phase roadmap' to ease COVID-19 lockdown?

Lockdown 3.0 in India is currently nearing its end and hence re has been a lot of hubbub as to what would happen after lockdown ends. Prime Minister of India, PM Narendra Modi, informed that re will be a Lockdown 4.0 as well, though it would be different and details would be out by May 18. Since n, re have been a lot of messs and WhatsApp forwards that claim that government has brought forward a roadmap to ease restrictions for COVID-19 - that it is set for 5 phases, and each phase has a 3-week review process.

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Origin:

mess started circulating on WhatsApp. mess claims that Government has a roadmap to ease restrictions that will set out in 5 phases. It claims that phases are a three-week review process, and n dates are given. At end of mess, it is said that if coronavirus will increase, government will revert to old restrictions.

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same mess was shared on or social media portals as well. Many people took to Twitter to share same mess and inform ors of same. Here are some of tweets that have same mess:

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TRUTH:

PIB Fact Check shared a picture of same Whatsapp Forward on ir Twitter account and released that it is fake and misleading information. Fact Check claimed that this ‘roadmap’ was t made by Indian government. It also claimed that phases are of some or country’s roadmap.

A thing to te about all tweets that were shared was that users who posted m were t Indian citizens. Many UK residents used same mess to ask wher Prime Minister of UK, Boris Johnson, has shared this or t. This has created a lot of confusion worldwide.

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5-phase government roadmap to ease COVID-19 restriction is given by Irish Government

This 5-part phase to ease COVID-19 restrictions belongs to Ireland. Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar along with his government brought forward this 5-phase plan to restart country and bring it back to its original state. same dates are being used by people in India and in UK to claim that ir government has brought forward this roadmap. tweet below has official press release of Irish government and more information about same. tweet also claims that people are saying that roadmap is for Philippines as well. 

Google Trends Analysis

Google Trends shows how people have been regularly looking at how government is supposed to ease down lockdown. One can see that searches reached a peak on May 11 at 8.30 PM. Ar hike was seen on May 14 at 12.30 PM:

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