India
oi-Deepika S
Bengaluru, June 18: The deadly second wave of the Covid-19 pandemic has hit rural India in a bad way. The scenes of patients being treated outdoors under trees, on blankets on the ground were common as ill-equipped villages, with lack of testing facilities and health infrastructure faced the gravest situation in their lifetime. But a village in Karnataka has emerged as a “model” for the rest of the state.
Koleranga village of Haliyala Taluk in Uttara Kannada district has not reported a single case of Covid-19 since the outbreak of the pandemic last year. Thanks to the strict measures enforced by the villagers.
Since March 2020, the village has not yet reported any Covid-19 cases. Koleranga village has a population of 250, mostly dependent on the dairy business.
As the news of COVID-19 outspreak spread, the villagers took showed a steely resolve and shut the doors for outsiders and…