KOLKATA, Apr 13:
The visually impaired are known to have a heightened sense of sound and they can echolocate their destination with reasonable ease. They also have enhanced tactile sense.
However, COVID-19, the disease that has brought the world to its knees, has compounded their difficulties as they navigate the maze of their dark, humdrum lives where touching, largely, is taboo and social distancing the norm.
Students of a premier Kolkata school for the visually impaired, who are currently at home due to the lockdown, are a worried lot, clueless about how will they maintain social distancing once the institute reopens in June.
“A visually impaired person often touches an object or holds the arm of a person to navigate his or her way. However, with social distancing norms in place, this has become a problem for them,” a teacher at Calcutta Blind School said.(PTI)
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