Mumbai Mayor takes the local train, tells Mumbaikars to mask up correctly

According to railway authorities, with the help of the BMC, they caught around 4,500 passengers, including 2,000 on the Central Railway’s locals and 2,500 on the Western Railway’s locals, without face masks between February 1 and 15.

Mayor Kishori Pednekar on Wednesday travelled on a local train to spread awareness about the use of masks among citizens in the wake of rising COVID-19 cases in the city.

Before boarding the train at Byculla station on the Central Railway route, Pednekar took a round outside the station and asked people moving around without masks to cover their faces, a BMC official said.

Vendors warned

“The mayor found a couple of vendors at a catering stall at the station not wearing masks properly. Pednekar requested them to wear masks all the time and also warned them of police action, if they ignored the guideline,” he said. During her local train journey from Byculla to Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Terminus (CSMT) in south Mumbai, the mayor found several commuters without masks.

“She told them 10 per cent of passengers without masks could pose a risk to the remaining 90 per cent passengers who use face coverings in public places,” the official said.

Hotel raided

After CSMT, Pednekar went to Santacruz, where she and a civic team conducted a raid on a hotel where several people who had returned from Gulf countries were quarantined as part of the COVID-19 protocols, the official said. Four passengers, who were on the list of quarantined passengers, were missing from the hotel, he said. The mayor directed the authorities concerned to file a police complaint against the missing passengers and the hotel, the official said.

According to railway authorities, with the help of the BMC, they caught around 4,500 passengers, including 2,000 on the Central Railway’s locals and 2,500 on the Western Railway’s locals, without face masks between February 1 and 15.

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