Munna Lohra, who walked eight days from Bengal's Howrah district to reach Ranchi on Thursday, tried to get himself admitted to a quarantine centre but could not.

Lohra, who used to work in a cattle shed in Liluah, around 404km from Ranchi, lives in a shanty near Harmu Housing Colony.

Lohra's son Annu Vishwakarma shared his father's struggle after arriving home.

“We told ward councillor Arun Kumar Jha on Friday morning and Argora police station officer in-charge (OC) Binod Kumar in the afternoon about my father's arrival but no one helped send my father to a state quarantine centre. My father also walked to Marwari Bhawan but later realised that it was a shelter home for labourers,” Vishwakarma said.

“Finally, a medical vehicle arrived around 8.30pm on Friday, collected my father's sample and asked him to remain in home quarantine. Everyone in my locality is worried of contracting Covid-19 from him,” the son added.

Councillor Jha said he had asked Lohra to call up the state helplines 181 and 1950. “After I gave the number no one again contacted me to tell whether he got help or not,” Jha said.

What we have done to our people: A group of 15 migrant workers, which included four families, waits outside the deputy commissioner’s office for help to reach Sahebganj on Saturday. They reached Ranchi in a truck from Mumbai. The truck driver charged Rs 4,000 per head. The labourers had to give away some of their cellphones since they did not have so much cash in hand. The driver dropped them off at Pandra in Ranchi around 7.30am. The local poople there suggested they to go to the deputy commissioner. The group walked to the DC’s office, which is 7km from Pandra. It was already around 11.30am when The Telegraph spotted them and requested the guards outside the office to arrange for some food for them and inform the DC so that they could go back to their homes. Text by Manob Chowdhury (Manob Chowdhury)

Argora OC Binod Kumar said it was not his duty to take the migrant labourer for a test or to quarantine. “A medical team is expected to take someone to a quarantine centre. We do not have any role. We just informed the medical team,” Kumar said.

Sub-divisional officer (SDO) Lokesh Kumar Mishra said the test was done as soon as the administration came to know.

“The TruNat test for COVID-19 was done on Lohra last (Friday) night. He tested negative and has been asked to remain in home quarantine. We are keeping vigil on him,” SDO Mishra said.

Vishwakarma, however, said no one had told them of the test result.

“Without a proper report we are worried and no one is realising our problem,” Vishwakarma said.

Prabhakar, a locality resident who helped Lohra's family, said: “If the system for gathering information is not improved it will be difficult to stop the spread of coronavirus. Thank god he tested negative. If he would have tested positive my locality would have become another containment zone.”

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