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PATNA: A fall in the overall positivity rate may have come as a relief amid the raging Covid second wave, but this deadly virus seems to have spread its tentacles deep inside rural Bihar, where the awareness of this disease is low, and the healthcare facilities are inadequate even in the best of times.
To make matters worse, people in the countryside have to depend on local quacks for treatment. Unaware of the symptoms of Covid-19, villagers ignore fever, cough and other manifestations till the condition gets serious, and then they end up with the quacks who, in some cases, are known to have given typhoid medications.