Chennai's super-spreader market has partially reopened after four months amid the coronavirus crisis. Some 300 food grain wholesale shops have been allowed to reopen in the city's Koyambedu market.
At one of the shops, U Lakshmi, a packer, is back at work. With no salary for four months, she had to pledge her gold for Rs. 20,000 to take care of her two children and her mason husband, who too had lost his job during the lockdown.