Mask-less Ravi’s video goes viral, netizens want her ‘fined’

Rajkot: A video of principal health secretary Jayanti Ravi has gone viral on social media platforms showing the top official moving around without wearing a mask in the premises of the circuit house while talking over the phone and taking her morning walk.
Ravi who has been camping in Rajkot for the past few days to control the sudden spike in Covid infection in the city has been continuously advocating wearing of masks.
However, frustrated by strict mask rules and high penalty for common people the netizens burst out on social media after the video went viral, making memes and asking the police and the civic body to fine Ravi too.
Netizens decried Rajkot Municipal Corporation (RMC) officials for collecting fines from people found not wearing masks in restaurants while waiting for food.
Rajkot police commisioner Manoj Agarwal could not be contacted for his comment.
Be that as it may, the union ministry of health and family welfare had made masks mandatory for all personnel working in infective environment or in public places during the outbreak of the pandemic.
The Gujarat government too made a small relaxation in the mask rule in a notification issued on June 27, 2020 by the state home department exempting a lone person occupying a car from wearing mask while driving the car. Even WHO’s revised guidelines suggests that everyone should wear fabric masks (non-medical) in public.