In A Shocking Incident Bihar Youth Beaten To Death For Reporting Cases of Corona

In Bihar’s Sitamarhi village, a youth was beaten to death by the people for informing the authorities about two youths who had returned from Mumbai and failed to report to the authorities for isolation.

The government has laid out guidelines and have also set up isolation facilities in each and every village. According to the guidelines, anyone coming from the outside needs to isolated and tested for the coronavirus. Only after they have passed the test and have completed the isolation period, they will be allowed to go home. Two youths who had returned from Mumbai fail to do so.

A youth of the village, having known this, decided to inform the authorities. The authorities were notified. The authorities reached the residence of the two youths, took them to the isolation and conducted the test. The test came out negative and the youth were sent back.

After that, reportedly, the two youths along with the family forcefully took the deceased to a remote location and were beaten to death. The police are said to have taken the action by arresting both the youths and 5 other family members.

There have been reports of people running out of quarantine facilities and people breaking social isolation for no reason that is, in turn, hindering India’s fight against the pandemic while the doctors on the front line continue to beg for more time. Along with the shortage of beds, there has been a huge demand for personal protective equipment for the doctors and the ever-rising demand for ventilators.

India is in its 4^th week of the first wave of the novel coronavirus outbreak. While the World Health Organisation and other countries have lauded India’s effort to contain the virus so far, back home, there has been criticism of its lack of testing. As per March 27^th, India had reportedly tested only over 26,000 samples out of which 1440 came out to be positive. Out of the total confirmed cases, there are 1252 active cases with 48 fatalities and 140 being recovered and discharged. India is currently under the 21-day lockdown period that is supposed to end on the 14^th of April.