Those from the community living in the hilly terrain and forest areas have their houses and farmlands at a distance from another person’s house and farmland
Surat: The proximity of houses and intermingling of people in small towns and big cities have shot up Covid-19 cases in major parts of the state. However, several tribal pockets in the tribal belt of the state are still protected from the alarming situation despite the lack of medical infrastructure that the cities have.
Dang located at the southern tip has the least number of cases in Gujarat at 524, as on Tuesday. Remote pockets in Narmada and Chhota Udepur districts too are not the contributors of the cases in the district. Administrators and social scientists say that several sub-communities within the tribal population have a certain lifestyle wherein they traditionally keep distance from each other.