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Neighbors did not allow a 37-year-old man to enter his home, even when he tested negative for the new coronavirus, forcing him to go to a quarantine center established by the health authority in Tripura.
Gobinda Debnath spent over Rs 30,000 to rent a car in Assam, and then it took her three days to get to Tripura, and finally her residence in Joynagar on the outskirts of the state capital, Agartala.
Debnath, who works in a mechanical workshop in Agartala, recently went to Assam to accompany his father to Guwahati.
For him, a new fight began when he was about to enter his home in Joynagar on Sunday night.
“More than 5,000 people, mostly intoxicated, prevented Debnath from entering his home. Police and health officials tried to pacify Debnath’s neighbors, but they became more agitated and also tried to harass us,” said the Officer. Tripura District Health Department, Sangeeta Chakraborty.
She said: “We have tried to tell people for several hours on Sunday night that Debnath tested negative for COVID-19, but the locals were not convincing. With no other alternative, we took Debnath to the institutional quarantine center at SIPARD ( State Institute of the Public Administration and Rural Development complex on the outskirts of the city) on Sunday night. ”
“By gathering in large numbers to prevent Debnath from entering their home, the crowd, who live in a small housing complex and nearby, did not maintain social distance,” said the health official.
Sensing the hostile situation, Debnath’s wife, Mampi Debnath, a pregnant woman, also asked her husband to go to the quarantine center. The couple also has a teenage daughter.
“Since everyone asked me to leave, and prevented me from entering the house even when I am a person without a crown, what can I say or do?” asked a Debath killed in the quarantine center on Monday.
Debnath lives with her three-member family and her parents-in-law in a small apartment assigned to her mother-in-law Bhanu Das under a government housing scheme for people living below the poverty line.
Following standard practice, authorities analyzed samples from Debnath near Churaibari, a Tripura-Assam interstate border point after it entered Tripura from Assam last week.
After testing negative, police escorted him to his residential complex in Joynagar on Sunday night.
Debnath’s case sheds light on the insensitivity and stigma associated with the coronavirus. Faced with similar cases of prejudice and social boycott, the state administration has been struggling to sensitize people.
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