Dip in both the no of covid positive cases and as well as covid deaths witnessed during last fortnight has though eased the process of trading and business activities across Kashmir, but ease in restrictions allowed by the government does not give people a license to randomly violate covid appropriate behaviour. While easing restrictions at workplaces, markets and picnic spots is a welcome move, the government very wisely does not tend to lower guard against the pandemic keeping in view the health advisories of the top health specialists about the arrival of the third wave of pandemic. While the gradual relaxation in restrictions marks the beginning of revival of business and trading activities ahead of the upcoming Eid Ul Adha celebrations across Jammu & Kashmir, the onus to follow the covid appropriate behaviour lies on the people even on the eve of the upcoming Eid Ul Adha celebrations. While masking up faces, social distancing, frequent use of sanitisers are the only precautionary measures people have to follow in markets and other crowded places, it is an opportune time for the government to intensify the ongoing vaccination drive and a right time for the people to get themselves vaccinated in short time. Both the people and the government have to keep in mind that crowding at market places and violation of covid preventive measures in anyway could prove disastrous keeping in view the observations of the health specialist about the arrival of a deadly third wave of pandemic any time in next three months. The crowding of local populations at tourist places in Kashmir valley would by all standards of understandabilities increase the chances of the arrival of third wave of pandemic and strict adherence to time schedule for visits at tourist places would by all standard of understandabilities surely reduce the possibilities of the arrival of third wave of covid pandemic in Jammu & Kashmir particularly Kashmir valley where an unprecedented rise in crowding of local populations has been noticed at most of the tourist places from mid June this year.
People’s cooperation to every covid preventive measure would ultimately set a trend for restoration of all forms of pre-covid normalities in Jammu & Kashmir but non cooperation from the people before or after the forthcoming Eid Ul Adha celebrations could lead to an unprecedented fresh surge in the non stop wave of covid pandemic. So it is for the people to facilitate the process of the resumption of pre-covid normalitities in Jammu & Kashmir.
So violation of covid appropriate behavious could only increase the chances of the arrival of third wave of pandemic in Jammu & Kashmir. Above all crowding at market places and violation of covid preventive measures could spoil all the recoveries made possible during the deadly second wave of pandemic in Jammu & Kashmir. So people’s cooperation to every covid preventive measure would ultimately set a trend for restoration of all forms of pre-covid normalities in Jammu & Kashmir but non cooperation from the people before or after the forthcoming Eid Ul Adha celebrations could lead to an unprecedented fresh surge in the non stop wave of covid pandemic. So it is for the people to facilitate the process of the resumption of pre-covid normalitities in Jammu & Kashmir.
