Bengal boy from London tests positive for covid 19, roams freely before being detected with the virus

The bizarre way in which a student, the son of a bureaucrat of the state secretariat of West Bengal and a doctor, who returned from London and threw caution to the wind ignoring the directives of airport officials to undergo a test for covid 19  following routine screening, is alarming. The bureaucrat a woman of considerable influence instead of exhibiting the wisdom desired of her took her son along with her flaunting her official arrogance. She alongwith her husband and their freshly returned son from London moved freely in the city, visiting malls and restaurants thereby putting the lives of innocent people at risk. This only goes on to show the gross regard by the bureaucrat for prevailing laws that common people need to follow. This incident brings to the fore the tendency of person in power to act on their own sweet will knowing fully well that their might and money power would thwart any attempt to penalise them.The boy who tested positive for covid 19 and is presently quarantined at a state run health facility specially equipped to tackle such cases comes against the backdrop of a general sense of fear and uncertainty among the public at large.If such so called elite section of the society act irresponsibly then it is foolish to expect that the public at large would adhere to the instructions proclaimed by the government to contain the spread of the novel coronavirus. Such acts should be condemned in the most stringent way and stern action taken against the people responsible for this vicious action so that the right message is sent to the society as a whole whole.

By ANJISHNU BISWAS