A five-member team of the health department undertook a five-hour trek covering nine kilometres through a hill, jungle and stream to reach Khambesi village in Odisha’s Rayagada district to conduct a door-to-door survey and distribute masks and sanitisers. The village is inhabited by people of the Dongria Kondh tribe, one of the particularly vulnerable tribal groups (PVTG), who are now being specially monitored after a rise in Covid-19 cases amongst them.
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