Meerut shop owners told to get tested, traders object
(WorldNews India)

A controversy has erupted in Meerut after a local station officer ordered shop owners in his area to get tested for novel coronavirus from a local government hospital, failing which they won`t be allowed to open their shops. While the traders` union and local BJP leaders have opposed it, the in-charge of Sadar Bazar police station, who ordered the mandatory tests, said that it was being done to check the spread of Covid-19. “The Covid in-charge of the government hospital on Delhi road had come out with the proposal that shop owners in the area should benefit from free Covid testing available. We decided that these tests should be made mandatory for shop owners of Abu Lane and Sadar Bazar...