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As the pandemic spreads, shopkeepers say no one comes shopping anymore
Updated On: 18 March, 2020 07:13 AM IST | Mumbai | Diwakar Sharma, Faizan Khan
With most offices shut and people working from home, the number of shoppers on the street has drastically come down in the last few days
Fashion Street shopkeepers are complaining that the footfall of customers has reduced by 90 per cent in last few days. Pic/Ashish Raje
The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) officials have started dispersing people gathering at high streets such as Fashion Street, Colaba market, Crawford market and other prominent places where buyers usually throng for shopping.
The assistant commissioner A-Ward BMC Chanda Jadhav said, "We have requested the shopkeepers at the high streets to shut their business as a precautionary measure to help us in combating further spread of Coronavirus (COVID-19)."
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