MUMBAI: SAB TV’s Taarak Mehta Ka Ooltah Chashmah (Neela Telefilms) currently airs a track revolving around precautionary measures to be taken to fight against novel Coronavirus.
As we saw, Sunita, a vegetable vendor, comes to Gokuldham Society as part of her daily routine. She is very particular about having no physical contact and advises the women to not personally pick up their veggies either. Instead, she asks them to give her their requirements and then picks up their vegetables and seals them in a sack. The money to be paid to her is deposited in a tin box that she is carrying to avoid person-to-person contact. While the ladies of society are buying vegetables, they notice a queue outside Dr. Haathi's clinic. Dr. Haathi is tirelessly screening and testing each and every patient. Just then, a sick and feeble man enters the society. He is coughing incessantly, thus making him a potential Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) patient. Dr. Haathi urgently rings the alarm bell and calls for an ambulance to take him to a hospital for a comprehensive checkup.
The residents of Gokuldham Society are in a state of fear and paranoia about their family’s safety. They immediately call their family members to inform them about the suspected Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) patient and everyone rushes back home worried about their families. Popatlal who is a bachelor and lives alone gets anxious and distraught that if he catches the virus then he would die a bachelor.
Gokuldham Society comes under the media’s radar of having a suspected Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) case. In the meantime, through a song, the characters of the show follow and reaffirm the precautionary measures as suggested by the Government making audiences aware about the virus and what precautions should be taken to reduce the chances of contracting it.
