Samikhsya Bureau
If the threat of the deadly COVID-19 has really reached a state when even shaking of hands, let alone a hug, can exacerbate the spread, then it is time that in all official and private offices or in any other institutions, there must be a mandatory halt on the bio-metric attendance everywhere.
For some time there can be a go back to the previous practice of taking attendance through registers until the virus bids and adieu from India. Or an arrangement can be made for a manual supervision on attendance and departure.
Because, the finger touch can always leave a virus on the bio-metric pad and the man or woman next is very likely to get that on his finger.
Initiating the idea the Green Tribunal of India has already doing so by clamping a temporary ban on the use of bio-metric attendance in its offices.
Even Odisha government has a reason now to impose a ban on the bio-metric attendance in the state and issue an advisory soon to shift back to the older methods. Few lapses on attendance is affordable than a minor risk of the virus stuck to the touch-botton.
With the number of COVID-19 cases in India having gone up to 43 and rumours are in abundance that, there are more suspects, it should be prudent by all in the country to keep the bio-metric attendance suspended till it is normal
