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Along with increasing checking at the 14 inter-state check points, porous areas near the borders are being identified to keep an eye on the movement of villagers from adjoining states.
JAMSHEDPUR: The rise in Covid-19 cases in the eight rural blocks in the district close to the Bengal and Odisha borders have forced officials to draw up a fresh blueprint to contain the virus.
Along with increasing checking at the 14 inter-state check points, porous areas near the borders are being identified to keep an eye on the movement of villagers from adjoining states.
“Active cases are being reported regularly from the rural blocks. Hence we are trying to detect suspected Covid-19 carriers coming to the district from outside,” additional chief medical officer (ACMO) Sahir Pall said.
Nitish Kumar will never forget the day he and his sisters buried their dead mother in the back garden. Just 32, Priyanka Devi had died from Covid on 3 May. Neighbours and relatives refused to help with her burial, and all the family’s money had gone on hospital fees. The coronavirus pandemic had hit his family, who live in the small village of Madhulata in the deprived Indian state of Bihar, with a tragic double blow. It was his father,.