Twenty-one more members of the Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Group (PVTG) in Odisha were afflicted with coronavirus, taking their number to 45, official sources said on Sunday. The PVTG is a classification by the central government for tribes based on their relative physical isolation, declining population, low levels of literacy and pre- agricultural stage of economy such as hunting, food gathering and shifting cultivation. Before 2016, PVTGs were known as Primitive Tribal Groups. While the number of PVTG people infected with COVID-19 was 21 till Friday, 10 more members of the Bonda tribe and 14 of the Dongaria Kondha community tested positive for the virus since Saturday, officials said.
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KORAPUT: Forty-five-year old
Manguli Kirsani, belonging to the primitive Bonda tribe, has been diligently discharging her duty as an anganwadi worker at Mudulipada centre under Khairaput block in the state’s remote Malkangiri district for the past 26 years.
But taking the first shot of Covid-19 vaccine at the Khairaput community health centre (CHC) on Monday has suddenly shot her into limelight. She has become an inspiration to other members of her community, who were reluctant to take the vaccine earlier.
“Though people of our area were doubting the efficacy of the vaccine, I was not in the least scared of it as I have been in the front line of the battle against Covid-19 right from the beginning. I took the vaccine with confidence and have not had any adverse reaction after vaccination,” Manguli told