By Thongkholal Haokip The Statesman, October 12, 2020 On 7 October, 249 people tested positive for Covid-19 in Manipur, among whom 234 were local residents without travel histories and six were personnel from the Central Armed Police Force. Only nine were visitors or returnees to the state, which is just 3.6 per cent of the total number to have tested positive […]
» Read moreBy Thongkholal Haokip The Statesman, 14 September 2020 Community based organisations in the hills of the North-east are imposing time tested traditional systems of local governance during the pandemic In these times, social distancing is an important public health measure to combat the extremely contagious coronavirus disease. There is a doubt about the practicability of social distancing in India given our […]
» Read moreIn the hills of the North-east, lockdown and quarantine measures primarily stem from the time-honoured cultural understanding of communicable diseases and epidemics By Thongkholal Haokip The Statesman, 1 June 2020. In these times of the Covid-19 pandemic, hill areas of the North-eastern region were the first to voluntarily enforce a lockdown and people had taken steps quite early on to […]
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