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Urban people rushing to villages for COVID shots Urban people rushing to villages for COVID shots BySupriya DedgaonkarSupriya Dedgaonkar / Updated: May 7, 2021, 06:00 IST They book slots meant for villagers, depriving latter of doses With the second wave of COVID-19 taking the entire country in its grip, the people are desperate to get vaccinated against the infection. However, in this race, the residents of Pune and Pimpri Chinchwad are in the frontier and are booking slots for Maan village’s vaccine centre (in pic) which is ideally meant for the villagers. Rural health officials have observed this pattern in the last couple of weeks and assert that there’s hardly anything that they can do about this as the process is online. ....
Roving labourers irk Maan villagers Roving labourers irk Maan villagers BySupriya DedgaonkarSupriya Dedgaonkar / Updated: Apr 19, 2021, 06:00 IST Local residents say that despite following all pandemic norms, wandering workers from unsafe construction site camps in the area are defeating the purpose; the authorities insist that no such mingling is happening, vigil will be stepped up The state government’s norm issued to get all construction site workers tested amid the lockdown is apparently serving its purpose over 200 new COVID-19 cases have been reported at labour camps scattered around the Maan village in the last few days. Now, after authorities swung into alarmed action, these camps have been sanitised, the affected persons isolated, and the whole area declared a micro-containment zone. ....