SHILLONG: At a time when the pandemic is testing the entire human race to its limits, some stalwarts of anti-stigmatisation have been making all out attempts to ensure that those infected with the dreaded novel coronavirus do not turn victims of such treatment.
At a particular area in Malki, which is lulled into a containment area, a note was pasted outside a house which carried strong warning against stigmatisation.
The note in Khasi, which was pasted outside a house, issued by Magistrate – Zone 1, read, “QUARANTINE AREA. Please don’t stigmatise as your time may come”.
This puts out a message for those who have been insensitive towards the people undergoing quarantine. It reminds the people that as a social being, we are to look out for one another in these trying times.
The house, which had the note pasted outside of it, was adjacent to another house under lockdown too.
In the area around Malki, after the detection of COVlD-19 cases in the houses of Mainly Warji at Chinapatty, Arcdia Kharmujai, Dhanketi, Dapda Warjri and i Parkordor Jarian, Lumbalang, Jenny Mary Basaiawmoit, Khliehshnong and Balbarico Kharmudai, Kharmalki and De’Arco and Lovely Stores at Malki Point, have been declared as containment areas to restrict unregulated movement.
