Inside a Covid care centre in Vijayawada: Entertainment room, packed food, balcony break
Covid-19 care centres in Andhra Pradesh accommodate patients with mild or no symptoms. ThePrint's photojournalist Suraj Singh Bisht visited one such facility in Vijayawada.
A patient at the Narayana Junior College, a covid care centre, in Vijayawada | Photo: Suraj Singh Bisht | ThePrint
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Vijayawada: Schools, colleges and marriage halls have been converted into Covid-19 care centers in Andhra Pradesh. There are 13 such facilities, one in each district of the state.
The centres were started by the Andhra Pradesh government in the last few months, and these accommodate patients with mild or no symptoms of the viral illness.
The patients get packed food for breakfast, lunch and dinner, and they have ‘entertainment rooms’ with access to television. Interaction between people, however, is limited, with the patients allowed to talk to each other only from their respective doors or balconies.
ThePrint’s photojournalist Suraj Singh Bisht visited one such Covid-19 care centre at the Narayana Junior College in Vijayawada, and this is what he saw.
Patients spend time at balconies of a Covid care centre in Vijaywada | Photo: Suraj Singh Bisht | ThePrintPatients can talk to each other only from the entry gates of their rooms | Photo: Suraj Singh Bisht | ThePrintA Covid-19 patient collecting a packed lunch provided at the nodal Covid-19 care centre | Photo: Suraj Singh Bisht | ThePrintA woman and her 11-year-old son who tested positive for the virus | Photo: Suraj Singh Bisht | ThePrintAn entertainment room for the isolated Covid-19 patients. But they have to maintain social distancing | Photo: Suraj Singh Bisht | ThePrint.A nodal officer at the Covid-19 care center | Photo: Suraj Singh Bisht | ThePrintPacked food kept outside a patient’s room at the quarantine centre | Photo: Suraj Singh Bisht | ThePrint
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