India Covid crisis: Man quarantines on treetop due to lack of isolation wards

Telangana - The man has been sleeping in the tree for 11 days now.

A Covid-positive 18-year-old in Telangana has been quarantining on a treetop due to a lack of isolation wards in his area.

According to News18, Shiva has been sleeping on a bed he built himself on a treetop out of bamboo sticks tied to branches for 11 days now. He is a resident of a tribal village in the Nalagonda district, where the nearest hospital is 30 kilometres away.

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Volunteers in the village had told Shiva to self-isolate from his family after he tested positive for Covid on May 4. He came up with the idea for quarantining on a treetop as his small family home did not have enough space for him to do so.

Shiva devised a pulley system, using a rope and a bucket, so family members could send him food, water and other essentials during his quarantine period.