After demands from retailers, traders, and gym and salon owners, those engaged in indoor sports activities have also demanded that they should be allowed to resume services. Associations of players have argued that when gyms and health clubs have been allowed to operate, the same rules should apply to them too.

With the number of cases dropping in the city and active cases subsequently reducing, sports such as badminton, table tennis and squash should be allowed even if it is for limited hours, the associations have said. They can be allowed to operate till 4 pm like the rest of the businesses, they said.