In a startling revelation that shocked individuals in southern India’s Andhra Pradesh state and past, two ladies within the state’s Kakinada district lived in self-isolation of their home for 2 years as a result of concern of getting contaminated by Covid. Positioned about 490 km west of the state capital Hyderabad, the event got here to gentle from Kakinada district’s Kuyyeru village on Tuesday. 

The native authorities reportedly shifted the lady and her daughter to a authorities hospital in Kakinada after the household head knowledgeable them about their deteriorating situation. The ladies, nonetheless, refused to open the door of their room. The ladies healthcare employees lastly persuaded them to open the door and forcibly shifted them to the hospital.

Native officers mentioned each ladies are suspected to be mentally unsound.

Mani and her daughter Durga Bhavani confined themselves to 4 partitions of their home in 2020 after the outbreak of Covid. Although the pandemic later got here below management, the ladies continued to stay in isolation.

Mani’s husband had been offering them with meals and water however for the final week, they weren’t permitting him into their room. He, then, approached the native authorities.

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That is the second such incident to come back to gentle within the state. In July final 12 months, an identical incident was reported from the East Godavari district when three ladies had confined themselves inside their home for nearly 15 months because of the concern of getting contaminated by Covid.