An unprecedented lockdown has been enforced across the country to stem the spread of the novel coronavirus pandemic. People have been forced to stay at home, work from home; businesses have been shut. All these to minimise human-to-human contact and break the COVID-19 contagion’s chain. But life cannot be shut down completely, people cannot be put on cryo-sleep like space travel fiction. People need to buy food, the sick must get medical care, the power and water supplies must be running like in any normal day, the cops must be out to protect people (there would be many elements trying to take advantage of the situation)…People will have to travel in an emergency, medical or otherwise. So, the essential services must be up and running. But what does 'essential' mean in this context: