NEW DELHI: The Centre's plan to track beneficiaries of its flagship Ayushman Bharat scheme may help it find potential covid-19 patients and thus contain the the infection in rural areas.
A massive movement of migrant labourers back to their towns and villages amid the lockdown has put population in India's hinterland at the risk of the contagion. "In rural India, it has now become very important to find out potential covid-19 patients.
The young labourers who may be carrying the infection after coming from hotspots will have high chances of recovery from the disease due to their age or good immunity.
But the major threat remains to their family members residing in villages who may be old, weak or with compromised immunity," said Dr Jugal