Yoga under pipal tree: How some UP villages are keeping Covid at bay

In Agra villages, local ingenuity has supplemented the limited medical facilities. While papaya leaves are in great demand to treat fever, villagers are also spending their days performing yoga under pipal trees.

The threat of Covid-19 may have receded slightly in Agra with the peak of the pandemic having passed, but the rural areas of the district are still struggling with proper access to good medical facilities. In such circumstances, local ingenuity has supplemented the limited medical facilities in these villages. While papaya leaves are in great demand to treat fever, villagers are also spending their days performing yoga under pipal trees. India Today came across several such yoga enthusiasts on a visit to the Naubri village in the Baroli Ahir block of Agra. These villagers insisted that they felt rejuvenated as beneath the pipal tree, the air was enriched with oxygen.