Petrol pumps ask customers to come with masks on

Petrol pumps, which are functioning during the nationwide lockdown, have stepped up their campaign to combat coronavirus by putting up a one-line message - No mask, no fuel - to make people realize how important was it to wear mask to avoid catching infection.

Azamgarh (Uttar Pradesh): With more and more cases of coronavirus being reported from across the country, petrol pumps here have come up with a policy of 'No mask, no fuel' to combat the disease, which has killed over a lakh people across the globe and affected almost everyone on the earth.

Talking to ETV Bharat here, petrol pump manager Sunil Kumar Srivastav said it was to spread the message among customers that they must take precautions to save themselves and others getting affected by the contagious virus.

"Anyone can get the virus. We must wear the mask and save ourselves and others as we work even while restrictions are on," he said.

Till date, six people have been found to be coronavirus positive in the district.

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