Thiruvananthapuram: The State Health Department has decided to conduct augmented testing targeted to identify additional Covid-19 cases and prevent transmission in the country.
According to the plan, the state will see 1.25 lakh testing on Thursday and 2.5 lakh testing on Friday.
In two days, 3.75 people lakh will be tested as part of this drive.
It has been decided to use the RT-PCR test and antigen for augmented testing.
The purpose of this augmented test is to identify an infectious bag that causes sustainable infections, to identify the new population segments and areas that provide new infection cases.
For the right intervention, the right new infection analysis will also be carried out.
It has been directed at testing all people with diseases such as influenza, with severe acute respiratory infections, people with comorbidity, those who are less than 45 years old and come into contact with the masses, people over 45 years have not been vaccinated, contact cases The known positive case, all patients came to the patient’s hospital wings, people included in large groups and detention zones.
Medical officers and district supervision have been directed to take samples from children from areas where Delta and Delta-Plus variants have been detected and also from regions with TPR reported more than 15%.
The district health administration has been asked to spread the extra power in the RT-PCR lab to meet increasing testing.
This has been directed that there should be delays in testing and the results must come out in a day (in 24 hours).
Combination of fixed, cellular or camping approaches will be used to test augmented in two days.
Covid-positive testing will be isolated with the support of each local body.