Muzaffarnagar: Bhartiya Kisan Union (BKU) has demanded that the sugar mills should set up isolation centres for sugarcane farmers to help them get treatment for Covid-19.
Chaudhari Naresh Tikait, national president of the BKU has written a letter to seven sugar mills in the district asking them to set up isolation centres in their premises to help the administration in treating coronavirus patients. He has stated that every sugar mill should set up 100-bed hospitals in their respective campuses through the CSR funds.
As many as 3,43,144 new COVID-19 cases and 3,44,776 recoveries were reported in India in the last 24 hours, the Union Health Ministry reported on Friday, taking the total cases in the country to 2,40,46,809.
