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Empty beaches, held off wedding events, people work from house: India comes to grips with COVID-19

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Mar 22, 2020 #grapples, #India
Empty beaches, held off wedding events, people work from house: India comes to grips with COVID-19

The big fat Indian wedding has actually been hit by COVID-19, and it has dragged beauty salons down with it.

Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal shut down clubs, swimming pools, health clubs and malls last week, but left out wedding events from his list of proscriptions, leaving it to people’s excellent sense to not congregate.

Organisation is bad

Social distancing might be the way to battle the virus, however it likewise means that companies, big and small, are feeling the coronavirus heat.

Members of an NGO distribute free face masks to commuters in Ahmedabad

Members of an NGO disperse complimentary face masks to commuters in Ahmedabad.|Photo Credit: Vijay Soneji

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However it’s those on the most affordable rungs who may suffer one of the most. Birender Yadav is a spot boy from Mumbai’s Juhu Koliwada, a daily wage earner whose revenues have actually stopped because Bollywood has actually stopped shootings. “ Ghar par hain. Shooting ruk jaane se ghar ka kiraya to nahin ruk jaata. Gareeb log kya khayenge, bachche kaise paalenge?(I am stuck at house. The shooting is stalled however we still need to pay rent. How will the bad consume, feed kids?)” he says. Yadav was working on Hungama 2. He makes 1,500 -1,800 a day for a 15-16 hour shift. He hopes the Federation of Western India Cine Worker (FWICE) will do something to assist members.

With commutes dropping greatly, countless taxi driver just can’t make ends satisfies. And, as of Thursday, aggregator companies did not have any settlement strategy in place. In other sectors too, business are laying off people or sending them on overdue leave. Without a vaccine in sight yet, things are starting to look grim.

All shut down

Reveals, films, shopping centers, health clubs, swimming pools, zoos, amusement parks– they are all closed. States Mumbai-based comic Kajol Srinivasan, “All business gigs have actually been cancelled– the OML circuit funny fest, the Pune Funny Festival 4.0, all cancelled. And the majority of producers

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