Uttarakhand villagers show Covid-like symptoms, but get treated for cold

NAINITAL: Dozens of

villages

in the hills districts of Uttarakhand are reporting cases of fever and cough, which are symptoms of Covid-19, but in the absence of reports as testing labs are too far away the people, hundreds of them, are at best only getting treated for common cold.


In Thalisain block of

Pauri Garhwal

, hundreds of people in around 30 villages have come down with fever and cough, according to local sources.

Suresh Chandra

, head of Patuli village, confirmed that dozens in just his village are suffering. “But no one has been tested yet. There is panic all around and many are in self-isolation. It has been over a week since people started falling sick,”

Chandra

said.

Kuldeep

Rawat

from Pajyana village said that he has spoken to several people from nearby villages and estimates that close to a thousand people are showing Covid-like symptoms but no one has come for testing yet. The nearest testing centre from Pajyana is 25km away and locals said that the ongoing lockdown has made it difficult for them to travel.

“If any of us show severe symptoms, we will have to either travel to

Srinagar Medical College

, which is 90 km away or to

Dehradun

, which is close to 250 km from here,” said Rawat.

Local officials in Pauri Garhwal confirmed that villagers have complained of fever.


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