Hyderabad: On the first day of the fever survey, 1,294 symptomatic people were found in the Hyderabad district and Ranga Reddy on Friday.
While Hyderabad recorded 1,192 symptomatic cases, Ranga Reddy contributed 102.
According to the Ministry of Health’s figures, nearly 1.75 lakh people surveyed in the Hyderabad district and Ranga Reddy on Friday.
In Hyderabad, 840 teams surveyed 35,107 houses, while in Ranga Reddy, 678 teams checked 10,800 households.
The week-long survey initiated by the Department of Welfare Telangana Health and family will cover 4,846 colonies in Hyderabad.
“We conducted a survey in the fields such as hilltop colonies and Chintal Basti among others.
After finding the simptomatic people, we distributed 1,192 Kit Covid-19,” said J Venkati, District Medical and Health Officer (DMHO), Hyderabad.
“People complain of having severe body aches and lightweight fever.
We ask everyone to isolate and distribute kits between them,” said Swarajya Lakshmi, Ranga Reddy Dmho.
The Fever survey also began in the Cantonment Secunderabad area where 21 health teams surveyed 1,754 houses.
“As many as 60 people were found symptomatic during the survey.
We distributed 48 health kits among them,” said Dr.
H Rajkumari, Deputy DMHO from Secunderabad.
During the survey, special emphasis was placed in pregnant women.
After all data is collected, the GHMC will eat the drive of sanitization in places from which a large number of Covid-19 cases are reported during a fever survey.
Head of Secretary Somesh Kumar with Commissioner GHMC DS Lokesh Kumar examined the door-to-door fever survey.
The main secretary said that the scope of the booster dose for Frontline workers and senior citizens was at 70%.
He also said that the center of a private hospital and the diagnostic center can charge a maximum power of RS 500 for RT-PCR tests.