Track, Test, Treat: ASHA Workers Lead Covid Fight In Assam Villages

In Assam, with Covid numbers spiking in rural areas, the state had relaunched its community surveillance programme after success in controlling the numbers in the first wave.

In Assam's Jimirigaon village, Asha worker Kanika Rabha and nurse Rashmi Kachari are going door-to-door screening over 400 residents for Covid symptoms.  They also monitor people who are in home isolation and check their oxygen levels twice a day.  "When the first case was found in the villages we got terrified. Even now we are worried, but we have to win over Covid and protect the village from it, that's why we are doing this," Kanika Rabha told NDTV. In Assam, with Covid numbers spiking in rural areas, the state had relaunched its community surveillance programme after success in controlling the numbers in the first wave.