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Fear and despair rules the streets of Baidpura village in northern India after a spate of deaths, as the country’s second wave of the coronavirus pandemic sweeps through its vast rural landscape where access to testing centres and health services is scarce.
People are dying at homes without treatment
Bhavani Prasad, grieving villager
More than a dozen people died of Covid-19 this month in the village of 3,500 people, and many others are showing symptoms, residents say. The situation in the village is grim. There is not a single family that is not showing Covid symptoms – cough, fever, body ache. They are complaining of loss of taste and smell but no one is certain if it is covid,” said Mahavir Nagar, a resident of the village in Uttar Pradesh state.
Greater Noida: Yogesh Talan, a former village pradhan accused by the Gautam Budh Nagar administration of giving “false information” to the media, was granted interim bail by the district court on Thursday. Talan was booked under sections 188 (disobedience of public servant’s order), 269 & 270 (spread of disease) of the IPC and sections of the Epidemic Diseases Act after the administration was upset with his comments.
At Talan’s village, Mewla Gopalgarh in the Jewar area, some people who were ill and had Covid symptoms had been seeking treatment under a neem tree and were also being administered glucose drips there. Talan had spoken to visiting journalists. After news reports, the administration carried out inquiries and sent medical teams there.
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