What happens when Covid test camp is held in remote Bihar village? Nothing. No one turns up

What happens when Covid test camp is held in remote Bihar village? Nothing. No one turns up
Jyoti Yadav
Madhubani: At the Jiroga panchayat’s middle school campus, Iftikhar Ahmad, a 37-year-old medical officer, was ready to launch a testing camp for local residents. Equipped with rapid antigen testing (RAT) kits, Ahmad and two lab technicians — who arrived here Friday afternoon after a four-hour journey from the district headquarters — waited. 
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They waited. And they waited. And they waited. 
By 3.30 pm, when time came to wrap up the camp, only nine people had been tested in the village of approximately 2,800 residents. Of these, seven were members and staff associated with the district and village administration, who underwent the test to convince the villagers it was a safe exercise. 

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