COVID19
DAY 6 (30.3.2020)
By
day six people are becoming used to the lockdown though as the days go by and
news comes in from all parts of the world the risks of COVID19 virus flu are
becoming clearer to the people. The festive air that had followed the first
one-day curfew last Sunday seems to have evaporated at least in urban areas. The
importance of social or physical distancing seems to have sunk in.
But
the same seriousness does not seem to have percolated down to the countryside. Vishal,
a student who has returned to his village from Delhi due to the lockdown, says
that people in his village, a few kilometres from the town of Sonipat on the
Grand Trunk Road, are taking things lightly. But Vishal himself has moved to
the village from his house at Sonipat since the town has reported cases of
Covid19. Gurgaon though is the town in Haryana that has reported the highest
number of cases.
Vishal
reports that though the menace of this deadly flu is yet to enter the rural
areas, the lockdown is already posing problems as there is no labour available
to cut the wheat crop which is ready.
Only vendors are allowed at
the main vegetable market which is open from five in the morning. Since ordinary
people are not allowed into the market, the vendors have formed a cartel and
sell vegetables at higher prices than the people are used to. The
administration has also stopped construction work leaving the labour to idle
with no wages and no means to take them to their homes. Locals however are doing
some screening and are distributing sanitisers.
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