Traders heaved a sigh of relief with wholesale vegetable shops reopening at Koyambedu on Sunday.
Around 200 shops reopened with a simple ceremony after several months of closure due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Koyambedu had become a cluster from where the pandemic spread because of crowding and the failure to comply with distancing norms by those at the market and those who shopped there. By mid-May, the count of cases from the cluster was about 3,000.
From early May, shops were shifted from Koyambedu to a temporary market at Thirumazhisai, about 50 km from the city. The shops in the new location were spread out with designated spaces for off-loading vegetables.
On Sunday, traders who had complained about inadequate facilities at Tirumazhisai were happy because they believed their livelihood was restored at Koyambedu.
D. Rajasekaran, president of the Federation of All Associations of…