Health officials of Daltonganj in a rare gesture held two tables one of the fruits and other of the rapid antigen test on Wednesday Chhath, said civil surgeon Palamu Anil Kumar.
It was a novel idea of the team to offer fruits to the Chhath devotees, said Kumar.
Conducting rapid antigen tests was a challenge as many who were asked to undergo this sped past.
Anil Kumar said he had to literally support the head of a man on whom a rapid antigen test was done.
Police of Chainpur and Ramgarh both laid out fruits' table for the devotees.
P R Rai officer in charge of the Ramgarh police station today said we laid our fruits table in collaboration with the locals.
He described it as a bridge between the public and the police.There were apples, oranges and bananas.
The Chhath festival passed off peacefully barring one incident where two brothers both under ten died by drowning in Nawa Bazar police station, said the officer in charge of the Nawa Bazaar police station Lalji Yadav.
The two minor brothers belonged to the most deprived class Bhuiyan and had gone to Nawa Bazaar's Rajhara based maternal house from Daltonganj where in the Koyal river they went to swim only to die in water.