The Covid-19 Pandemic has had, without a doubt, a wide-ranging impact on the lives of all people worldwide. But its impact could be seen not just on the lives of people, but also on the nature of the modern state, its functions, and its means of exercising monopoly in the times of extraordinary circumstances. Most definitions of the modern state agree that it exerts monopoly on certain aspects of the lives of the citizens. The Weberian notion of the state’s monopoly on the legitimate use of violence is well-known. But, apart from violence, the modern state also exercises, quite importantly, the monopoly on the legitimate means of movement. When the pandemic hit, it was perceived important for people’s movement to be restricted in order to curb the spread of the virus. And thus the modern state, with great vigor, put into force its monopoly powers and placed restrictions on the means of movement. The scope of this paper is not to defend or argue against the state’s actions during the pandemic. Instead, what it seeks to do is to zoom into the modern state’s monopolization of the legitimate means of movement and demonstrate how it dilated and accentuated due to the pandemic. This paper is an attempt to juxtapose the extraordinary circumstances of the pandemic over what has been an important feature of the modern state: monopoly on the legitimate means of movement. It seeks to enquire into the effects of this monopolization in the context of the pandemic, while bring in the debates on the right to free movement and the interplay of citizenship and state.