COVID-19: Delhi people likely to get newspaper from April 1
New Delhi/UNI: In all probability, Delhiites are likely to get their daily newspapers in the morning from April 1.
According to some Newspaper Vendors Association, the distribution of dailies will be expected to be normalised from Tuesday.
Notwithstanding the print media out of the ongoing nationwide lockdown, newspapers did not reach homes in many parts of the country, including Delhi, since March 24.
Delhi Police Commissioner S N Shrivastava on Saturday asked the beat officers to ensure that no newspaper vendor or distributor is stopped from doing their duties.
According to Delhi Police spokesperson Anil Mittal, the order was issued taking note of complaints from citizens that newspaper vendors were being stopped at the gates of colonies in some parts of the city.
Mittal informed that Shrivastava had asked the DCPs to instruct the beat officers to allow newspaper vendors to deliver newspapers between 0400 and 0900 hrs.
Incidentally, the World Health Organisation (WHO) had earlier assured that there is no fear of contamination of Corona Virus from newspapers.
Reports said newspapers were also not available in Mumbai, Kolkata and many other places of the country after March 23, a day after the nationwide 'Janata Curfew' announced by the Prime Minister Narendra Modi on March 19.
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