Citizens have begun to suggest Palamu administration about space and buildings which can be doubled up as Covid care center in Daltonganj.

President of the Mahavir Nav Yuvak Dal, Durga Johri has sent a letter to the DC Shashi Ranjan to convert Pdt Deendayal Upadhaya Smriti Bhavan in Daltonganj to Covid care center as the district is facing a growing shortage of beds.

Johri said this new arrangement if done will help tide over the crisis of the beds for the Coronavirus patients.

The DC said the administration is keeping a close eye on the situation and if such a situation arises it can use other buildings for the treatment of Covid patients.

This correspondent met a variety of people of various age groups who said it is the right time that there should be a lockdown just to break the chain of the Coronavirus.

The common refrain was to break the chain of the coronavirus. Hotels are empty. Bus transportation is high, doubling the fear of the Coronavirus. It is only the medical stores that are doing brisk business.

A seller of Amit Pharmacy in the Engineering road here said there is a shortage of azithromycin 500 mg in the town following an upswing in the demand for this medicine. This is a dependable medicine for sensitive throat, said a doctor.

Talking about the impact of a lockdown on the economy, these people said time is not far off when businessmen and shop keepers will themselves shut their shops in the wake of the rise of the Coronavirus.

The administration has sealed nearly half a dozen shops so far in this town Daltonganj on charges of violation of health protocol like absence of masks and no maintenance of the social distancing etc.

Interrupted here by the correspondent that shopkeepers do not wear masks and blame the customers, one of the shop keepers Singhania said this is equally true.

Sources said there is going to be a great eclipse on the Eid market which goes on well past 7 in the evening and for a few hours in the second half of the day.

As shops are ordered to be shut at 8pm this Ramzan market is set to be most badly affected.