Bengaluru: worrying about the Covid-19 protocol which was rejected during the campaign speech and demonstration, the Department of Health and the welfare of the Brass family had asked officials to increase testing by 20% in the constituency of Hangal and Sindi assembly where Bypolls were held last weekend.
In a round issued by the Ministry of Health and the Family of the State on October 30, Arundhathi Chandrashekar, Mission Director, National Health Mission, Karnataka, said there was a need to cry to strengthen supervision activities in Hangal and Sindgi, to capture the spread of Covid.
The department suggests there is a broad violation of the appropriate Covid behavior, besides clustering during campaigning.
The department has instructed authority in Haveri and Vijayapura Regency to ensure the Covid-19 test was carried out on all officials and staff who were carrying out electoral assignments.
Circular has also ordered officials to test senior citizens and people with comorbidity, besides anyone with symptoms in the two assembly constituencies must take the test.
“There is a recommendation from the Technical Advisory Committee [Covid-19] (TAC) in this case,” said D Randeep, the Department of Commissioners’ Welfare, Health and Work.
TAC, at the 131st meeting on October 28, it recommended that the state government increase testing by 20% in these two seats.
“If there are 100 tests that occur in this constituency, we have suggested doing 120 tests,” TAC member said.
However, there is no data available at the current test number in these two constituencies.
Experts say that before the poll, during the voting and even on the day the results were announced, there was a big vibration in both voters.
“The level of participants in all countries is currently less than 1% but Covid has not ended and there is always worries from the third wave of infection and the emergence of a new variant,” said an expert.
“During the recent poll, there was crowding everywhere and almost no obedience to wearing a mask.
The need is to ensure that no cluster is not detected in this area.” In addition, officers in the field said, many people said From outside the Vijayapura area and Haveri visited two constituencies before, and during the election.
In Vijayapura, the coverage of Covid’s first dose vaccination has passed 94%, while almost 85% in Haveri in accordance with the Cowin Dashboard data on Wednesday.