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Coronavirus | Businesses down shutters, industries function in Coimbatore
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A total of 2,500 police personnel deployed across the district to enforce lockdown restrictions
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The usually busy wholesale grocery market on R.G. Street saw only a few customers on Monday morning.
A total of 2,500 police personnel deployed across the district to enforce lockdown restrictions
As the district entered into a two-week lockdown to control the spread of COVID-19, businesses downed shutters in Coimbatore and industries in the essential sectors continued operation.
Shops in the main commercial areas of the city – Gandhipuram, RS Puram and Big Bazaar Street – did not open on Monday. “The compliance is total and shops will remain closed during the lockdown period,” said C. Balasubramanian, president of the Indian Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Coimbatore.
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The new lockdown may not restrict in-situ construction activities, but the developers are worried over the transport of construction materials from Monday.
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A patient is wheeled out of the Corona Outpatient Department at RGGGH in Chennai on Saturday. (Photo | Debadatta Mallick/EPS)
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CHENNAI: The new lockdown may not restrict in-situ construction activities, but the developers are worried over the transport of construction materials from Monday.
The closing of hardware shops will alone impact the construction activity by 50 per cent, says Builders Association of India State secretary S Rama Prabhu.
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Migrant labourers throng Central railway station due to the lockdown in Chennai on Monday (Express Photo | R Satish Babu)
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