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Shops in Ballupete to shut for a week
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Shopkeepers of Ballupete village in Sakleshpur taluk have decided to close business establishments for a week from Wednesday following the death of three shopkeepers due to COVID-19 in last few days.
The merchants took a unanimous decision on Tuesday to close all shops, except medical shops, from May 5 to 12. The State government had allowed shops that sell grocery and other food items to do business between 6 a.m. and 10 a.m. during the lockdown.
“Now, they have voluntarily decided to shut shops for a week in view of deaths. Shopkeepers of Ballupete had taken a similar decision to avoid the spread of infection,” said R. Prabha, Panchayat Development Officer of Ballupete Gram Panchayat.
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The Dakshina Kannada Zilla Panchayat has asked its all gram panchayats to constitute a village task force each to check the threat of COVID-19 from upsurging again.
The ZP Chief Executive Officer Kumar said that the task force will be headed by the Panchayat Development Officer. In addition, it will have the village accountant, an anganwadi worker, an Accredited Social Health Activist (ASHA), and a gram panchayat member.
The task force will have to create awareness among people in the jurisdiction of their respective panchayats to take COVID-19 vaccine, wear masks in public places, and to take other precautionary measures. It will have to monitor whether people are wearing masks in public places. The task force will have to ensure that all precautionary measures are taken to contain the spread of infection.
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