24 People Tests Positive as Bored Truck Drivers Plays Cards with Friends

A bored truck drivers effort to kill time by indulging in a game of cards with friends and neighbours led to the infection of coronavirus in 24 people in one locality of Vijayawada city in Andhra Pradesh, Krishna district Collector A Md Imtiaz said here on Saturday.

A social grouping for whiling away time by another truck driver resulted in the virus affliction to about 15 people in another locality in Vijayawada.

These two instances accounted for about 40 cases in the city in the last couple of days, he said.

The truck driver in Krishna Lanka area was exhausted and played a game of cards with his companions and neighbors while the ladies assembled up and played tambola. 

This brought about the



spread of the feared infection in 24 individuals, he said. 

"Something very similar occurred in Karmika Nagar. The truck driver moved around mingling and in the process around 15 individuals got harrowed," Imtiaz included. 

Inability to keep up physical separation was the sole reason for the transmission of the coronavirus in these cases, he said in a recorded video message.

Vijayawada is one of the major hotspots of coronavirus in the state where over 100 cases have been registered so far. In the last 24 hours alone 25 fresh cases were reported in the city, which is part of the state capital Amaravati.

The Collector appealed to people to strictly maintain physical distance to avoid the infection.