A significant influx of vacationers moving to the hills to escape the heat has offered rise to a number of violations of Covid-acceptable behaviour and raised issues about an additional attainable spike in infections. Even as pictures and videos of vacationers thronging the hills circulate on social media, actress Sunny Leone took to Instagram today to urge absolutely everyone to stay away from travel. “Stay Home!! Mountains are not going anywhere.. neither should you!!” the actress wrote on Instagram, sharing a video advisory alongside her post.
In the video, an excited Sunny Leone runs straight into a crowded marketplace even though the caption on screen displays “Mountains are calling”. The video cuts to an alarming shot of hundreds of individuals on a road in a hilly location, none of them social distancing. A crestfallen Sunny Leone can then be seen returning.
In her post, she added the hashtags #DontBeAnIdiot, #StayHome and #StayProtected to urge individuals to remain indoors.
The video has racked up more than 81,000 ‘likes’ and thousands of comments on the photo and video sharing platform. While quite a few thanked Sunny Leone for sharing an vital message, other people praised her for her sense of humour even though undertaking so.
Only lately, a video of a boy in in a crowded alley of Himachal Pradesh’s Dharamshala had gone viral on social media. The boy, carrying a stick, was seen verify vacationers roaming the streets devoid of masks.
On Friday, Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Jairam Thakur also appealed to vacationers to adhere to Covid-19 guidelines even though going to the state. “We are concerned about the number of tourists coming to the state. Tourists are welcome here but I appeal to them to follow COVID-19 norms,” he stated to ANI.