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<p style="text-align:justify">On 20 April, Rajesh Pandit, a 40-year-old owner of a meat shop, returned from Ludhiana to Patna by train. He was running a steep fever. He spent that night at the Patna station, for lack of transport, but was not screened for COVID-19 by the state&rsquo;s authorities. The next day, he took a bus from Patna&rsquo;s Mithapur bus stand and reached Baruna Rasalpur village, in Samastipur district. He was not swabbed for the virus there either. &ldquo;All my neighbours knew that he had fever and breathing problems, but no health worker turned up or arranged for either testing or treatment,&rdquo; Ram Udesh Pandit, Rajesh&rsquo;s younger brother, told me. Rajesh&rsquo;s family got him medicines from a local shop, but his condition did not improve. &ldquo;On 24 April, we took him to Samastipur and got him tested at private test centre,&rdquo; Ram Udesh said. &ldquo;It was positive.&rdquo; The next day, a CT scan at another private centre showed that 35-percent lung damage. By then, his fever had worsened and he was struggling to breathe. He was admitted to a private hospital in Samastipur town and transferred three days later to Darbhanga Medical College and Hospital. Rajesh died on 4 May.</p>

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<p style="text-align:justify">Please <a href="https://caravanmagazine.in/health/spread-of-covid19-in-rural-bihar-quickened-by-failure-to-test-returning-migrants?fbclid=IwAR35_M8dpzGfAUFk-xgCR33pjN94Ict8vB2gNjtPSzwB73pwmrLB8DyKafc">click here</a> to readmore.</p>
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