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NEW DELHI: People fleeing quarantine centres, struggling with unhygienic rooms and toilets, being treated like untouchables, living in cramped rooms, fighting for food. Even as Covid-19 cases surge across the country and quarantine centres run by state governments begin to overflow, tales of woes at these centres in many states continue to spill over.
A number of cases of people fleeing quarantine centres to commit suicide has been pouring in. While a labourer in Yavatmal in Maharashtra hanged himself from a tree after fleeing a centre on Saturday, a person in Odisha’s Mayurbhanj also committed suicide on Thursday.
Many are also fleeing to escape sordid conditions and lack of facilities.
It has been 48 hours since Sundararaj (43) fled from Tamil Nadu’s biggest medical facility — Rajiv Gandhi Government General Hospital — and police are yet to trace him. What worries authorities is that he is part of the noto