Traders down shutters voluntarily in Anantapur
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Shops to stay closed from 6 p.m. to six a.m.
With the spurt in the coronavirus infections, the Association of Traders and Businessmen in the outdated city space of Anantapur and in Dharmavaram voluntarily determined at a gathering on Thursday evening to down their shutters from 6 p.m. to six a.m. each day from Friday.
The transfer got here into implementation even earlier than the State authorities took a call to impose curfew or lockdown. The members of the merchants’ affiliation went from one store to the opposite on Friday morning looking for their help to comprise the unfold of the virus and urged everybody to not enable prospects to enter their retailers with out sporting a masks.
Meanwhile, the police personnel stored a stringent watch on the individuals going to retailers and crowding on the tea and occasional kiosks and ensured that social distance was maintained. They additionally educated individuals on the advantages of sporting masks.
In the brand new city space of Anantapur, not many merchants got here ahead to close down the shutters, however the members of the affiliation made rounds of all of the retailers and pleaded with them to shut retailers at 6 p.m.
However, resistance got here from the lodge and restaurant house owners as they did brisk enterprise in the night and in the absence of any official memo on this, they weren’t prepared to lose cash.
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