COVID-19 | Weekend curfew in Bengaluru sees citizens remain at home

After a quick burst of exercise in the morning, when grocery shops and meat and dairy shops had been allowed to function from 6 a.m. to 10 a.m., Bengaluru hunkered down for the weekend curfew. In Fraser Town, most grocery shops noticed just a few prospects shopping for last-minute requirements, although there have been longer queues outdoors dairy and butcher stalls.

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“We did brisk business yesterday as people stocked up on supplies, but it was nothing like the panic buying we saw last year. This morning, I hardly had any customers,” stated a kirana retailer proprietor, who like many others on the street was downing the shutters even earlier than the ten a.m. deadline.

In Banashankari III Stage, a number of grocery shops had been additionally discovered shut earlier than 10 a.m. Only milk cubicles and a few vegetable distributors had been open. However there weren’t many patrons. “Most people finished shopping last evening. We had crowds yesterday,” stated a vegetable store proprietor in CKA structure.

There had been few vehicles even on arterial roads as a consequence of heavy police presence. “Security has been heightened in and around the city to enforce curfew. Nakabandis have been put up at the major junctions and flyovers shut down to contain unnecessary traffic flow. The situation is peaceful and no untoward incidents reported so far,” stated a police official.

Since Friday evening, when the curfew got here into impact, the police had seized 108 autos together with 96 two-wheelers, and shut down 41 business institutions for working illegally.

Activities come to a standstill in Mangaluru

Activities in Dakshina Kannada and Udupi districts got here to a standstill with the weekend curfew being imposed to forestall unfold of COVID-19.

Milk-, vegetable distributors and sellers of different important merchandise too downed the shutters by 9.30 a.m. in Mangaluru ensuing in a complete lockdown. While non-public metropolis buses had been off the street, few skeletal companies of KSRTC had been operational.

The Mangaluru City police has arrange checkposts at 54 locations in the town together with main junctions akin to Clock Tower junction the place about 12 personnel had been posted to cease pointless motion of autos. The car motion was barred on the street between Clock Tower and. A.B.Shetty Circle and diverted to Clock Tower Junction- Rao and Rao Circle street stretch.

Police Commissioner N. Shashi Kumar stated 35 cellular squads with about three squads for every police station function. A complete of 1,000 police personnel have been deployed. The police will seize autos which can be seen unnecessarily transferring on the roads, he stated.

In the final one week 1,400 circumstances have been booked for not sporting masks. As many as 80 circumstances beneath Epidemic Diseases Act, together with 30 circumstances on Friday, have been booked, he stated.