Mandya: Social distancing norms to check the spread of COVID-19 are going for a toss with people crowding and jostling against each other to buy essential commodities such as groceries and meat in city yesterday.
As per the protocol, essential services such as vegetable, grocery and meat shops are allowed to function between 6 to 10 am. Most of the shops in city remained open even after 10 am and the crowd were busy purchasing essential commodities. Despite clarification that essential services will be exempted, panic buying continued at all major market places.
