The BEST Undertaking's transport department, which primarily consists of bus drivers and conductors, is being called to work every day during the lockdown, claims staff. A large number of them are left without work, after waiting together without masks all day, for a vehicle to be assigned to them.

According to a BEST employee, transport is the only department that has been called to work every day at its total capacity. This is unlike the 50 per cent system that some other departments have going for them, with workforce split into two, each half operating on alternate days.