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Fear and mistrust in rural Punjab: Villages in Punjab have issued resolutions, signed by the local Sarpanch, that Covid tests will only be performed voluntarily and nobody will taken to quarantine centres agains their will. These orders were issued after high levels of panic and misinformation among villagers. Some of them have alleged that non-Covid patients have been forcefully quarantined along with infected ones while others point towards rumours of illegal organ harvesting in hospitals. The level of mistrust is so high that medical teams have been attacked and not allowed entry into some regions. Their fears have been validated