With a rapid surge in new cases in the city, the Civic body has adopted a five-branch testing strategy to identify symptomatic patients for early diagnosis and treatment.
The corporation will randomly test people to control the case surge.
In addition, the corporation has instructed zonal health officials to file police complaints at home quarantine violators.
Gagandeep corporate commissioner Singh Bedi told Ti Pronged Five strategies including random and focused testing.
“The team, led by regional deputy commissioners, has been formed to conduct random samples from market vendors and buyers.
Second, testing of prisoners and educational institutions is in the car,” he said, acknowledging that the strategy was driven by a strategy.
The fact that some students turned out to be positive.
Instructions for testing focused on all hospitalizations in government and private hospitals have also been issued.
“Random samples are being taken at the bus station and travel place,” he added.
As soon as the test results arrive, the patient will be diagnosed in the filtering center and guided whether they can be isolated at home or treated in one of the health centers.
In addition, regional deputy commissioners have been told to identify areas where testing focuses on vulnerable population and not vaccinated.
While the Civic Agency conducts more than 20,000 tests a day, experts say with omicron variants that spread faster, the RPCR test may not be very efficient.
“During this period, the government must think to focus on testing antigens.
When the contract was traced, the sample was taken and the results of the RTPCR were awaited, there was a large delay.
This will then make the contract track the complicated process as that person might have infected more people, “A specialist of the infectious disease Dr.
Subramanian Swaminathan.
Only last week, Union Health Secretary Rajesh Bhushan wrote to the Head of Secretary of all countries, urging them to use a quick antigen test.
With cases of rising quickly, the slow settlement time of the RPCR test leads to the delay in the diagnosis.
Dr.
Swaminathan said once the case rose beyond the threshold, contact contacts would not matter again because the infection had spread.
In an internal meeting held at Ripon Building on Wednesday, zonal health officials said due to the delay in intimacy by the private laboratory on the RPCR test, they could not follow up on house isolation.
“When we called a patient who took a RPCR test, he traveled by train,” said an zonal health official.
City health workers said in such cases, strict police actions must be taken.
At the early meeting of zonal officers, the corporate commissioner instructed voloral focusing on visiting home office patient houses regularly to examine symptoms.
He also instructed Tele-Counseling Team to call patients twice a day and report the same thing to him.
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