Housing societies in city invoke voluntary lockdown
Residents of Marine Drive, Cuffe Parade and Churchgate become extra cautious
With a sudden rise in the number of COVID-19 cases across the city, residents of housing societies have started implementing safety measures that they adopted when the pandemic broke out in the city early last year.
Between March and September last year, most of the housing societies and residential buildings in the city had imposed voluntary lockdown in the society thus restricting entry and exit of the daily visitors.
"As the number of cases has witnessed rise again, residents of Marine Drive, Cuffe Parade and Churchgate areas have become extra cautious and have now started to implement lock
down measures in their buildings," Harshita Narwekar, corporator of Cuffe Parade told FPJ.
Narwekar also maintained that most of the residents living in the residential buildings of Marine Drive and Churchgate are senior citizens which is why the local people have become serious with the precautions.
"We are monitoring the entry and exit of our residents, most of the working individuals are working from their homes so it will be safer for us if we don't allow outsiders to enter the buildings for some time," stated Naseer Shaikh a resident at Marine Drive.
The locals have also stated, in order to avoid another lockdown, now its important for the government to start vaccinating the common citizens.
"The citizen's won't be able to afford another lockdown so its time, the state government should allow local clinics and hospitals to start vaccinating common citizens in presentation of their Aadhar cards," Ashok Gupta, vice-president of Marine Drive Citizen's Association told FPJ.
Also in order to curb the spread, members of Advanced Locality Management (ALM) groups have also hit the ground in order to spread awareness amongst people. Members of the ALM groups stated people still lack the conscience of wearing mask at public places.