Health dept urged shopkeepers to follow Covid norms

Ludhiana: Continuing with the ongoing awareness drive to curb the second wave of Coronavirus, the Mass Education & Media Wing (MEM) of health department Ludhiana today collaborated with the Punjab Police to spread awareness regarding the goverment advisory on covid,along with the health department's team the Punjab Police personnels issued challans to people found violating the Covid norms during the drive. The members of awareness team and police personnel on Wednesday, visited many areas of city which normally witness a huge rush of people and motivated and appealed the people to follow all the norms and wear masks and maintain adeqaute social distancing to avoid getting challaned and to stay safe from covid.

Dr. Rajesh Kumar Bagga, Civil Surgeon Ludhiana said that the people are not paying any heed to covid precautions now which is a matter of concern for everyone. He said, earlier  people were following covid norms which resulted in reduction of new cases being detected in the end of october but however lately people  started avoiding wearing mask, due to which the Government had to increase the fine to Rs. 1000. So,  people should wear everytime, to avoid getting challaned and also to keep themselves safe from Covid.

The awareness teams on Wednesday specifically visited the dense areas of city. Rajinder Singh, Block Extension Educator said that they visited the Chaura Bazaar, where they individually visited every shop and appealed them to follow all the guidelines. During this awareness drive, people were also addressed in the market with a public address system along with an Information Education communication van.

Harjinder Singh, district Mass Education and Media Officer said that people want to stay safe for covid but  they don't want to follow any precautions, which is not possible. So, for the benefit of themselves and also for the safety of whole community people should follow all the guidelines seriously, only then this second wave of covid cases can be tackled down.