NSTworld: “We are not sure but we are not even letting our relatives stay with us.” India coronavirus covid19 UttarPradesh
State officials have told village councils to keep returning labourers from entering the town or meeting people due to fears they may be infected with the Covid-19 coronavirus. Instead, they’re forced to stay in schools or farms outside the village, where local authorities and doctors make regular visits and police make sure lockdown orders are followed.
Medical staff wearing protective gears walk in a residential area to screen residents in the wake of COVID-19 coronavirus outbreak, during a government-imposed nationwide lockdown as a preventive measure against the COVID-19 coronavirus in Amritsar on April 12, 2020. - AFP India’s low testing rates over the last two months have added to the uncertainty. India had tested 144,910 samples as of April 9, according to data from the Indian Council for Medical Research. Data for testing in Uttar Pradesh and Bihar was not immediately available. The country has so far reported 7,600 infections and 249 deaths due to the virus, according to data from Johns Hopkins University.
The mass exodus of hundreds of thousands of poor, migrant workers heading homeward, packed in crowded trains and buses or on foot over hundreds of miles, has only increased the pressure. These detainment centres will become host spots of infection, said Sundararaman T., New Delhi-based global coordinator of the People’s Health Movement, an organisation which brings together local activists, academics and civil society groups working on public health.
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