Coimbatore: Compliance with Covid-19 prevention measures on the government bus is still bad, despite a surge in new cases.
While most passengers from the Tamil Nadu state transportation bus and State Express Transport Corporation throw norms into the wind, some people are forced to travel with an infected fear.
Often, the bus crew also looks without a face mask, causing concern among the people.
Some people, who are worried about infection, saying while most passengers wear face masks when riding a bus, many of them eliminate the same thing.
“With his own conductor not wearing a face mask correctly, he doesn’t think of asking people who violate the rules,” they said.
There are few awards for the rules in a long-term bus route, which connects the district.
Passengers say the bus can turn into a viral transmission point, if the authority does not overcome this problem.
P Manickaraja, a resident of Selvapuram, said, “Many people draw face masks to their chin once they sit on the bus.
They don’t care to wear it right even if someone questiones them.
This is the duty of the bus conductor to keep an eye on it and ensure compliance with norms .
But they do not support us when we question the offenders.
“H Vijayagopal, a city resident, said he was the only one of three passengers to comply with mask rules on the bus connecting Trichy and Coimbatore.
“I am a marketing professional, who often travel to various districts.
People don’t pay attention to mask etiquette.
I think they will follow it only when it is strictly carried out by punishing them.
First of all, the conductor must be sensitive to the importance of wearing a face mask,” he told TI , The TNSTC bus conductor, which did not want to be identified, said he was sick of insisting people to wear a face mask.
“Some passengers are not cooperative.
Law enforcement officials must inspect surprises and fines of violators.”