KOLKATA : It has been nearly three weeks since the first coronavirus case was recorded in West Bengal. The son of a bureaucrat had flouted doctors’ orders after returning from London and, instead of getting himself tested, went around town.
Since then, the state has seen 90 more covid-19 cases with three deaths. Bengal is dealing with the crisis in its own unique way.
In Kolkata and its suburbs, vegetable, fish, meat and poultry markets, in fact, have been bursting at the seams with people during the morning hours.
A random check reveals that few people pay heed to the requirement for maintaining distance. At the crack of dawn, in front of Satyanarayan Bhandar, a grocery store in the Kolkata suburb of Garia, a queue of shoppers wait for
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