Doctors nurses evicted from their homes in Agartala as fear spreads amid coronavirus lockdown

Agartala | Saturday | 28th March, 2020

Summary:

As the global coronavirus pandemic is worsening with every passing day, fear is swelling in across India and the medical workers including doctors and nurses are bearing the brunt of public panic. Such an incident of social stigma has come to the fore in Tripura capital Agartala where a paramedic and his nurse wife were asked to vacate their rented house by the landlord. Some landlords in Agartala have been forcing the doctor and nurse tenants to vacate the house amid rumours that they are spreading coronavirus. “As the lockdown began, the landlord has been pressurising us to vacate the house. Both were stopped from entering their rented house on Thursday by their landlord and some locals..