Quarantine in watchtower
Two brothers in West Bengal have made an unusual choice for a quarantine facility — not out of choice but compulsion. A 25-foot-high watchtower in an elephant corridor outside their village in the state’s Jalpaiguri district has been their Covid-19 quarantine facility for the past few days. One of the two had returned from his workplace at a luxury resort in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, while the other had travelled to Siliguri to bring him back home to Malibhita village, about 35 km away. Panic-stricken villagers turned them away, urging them to stay outside the village