Kolkata: After the increase in Covid case, Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) has decided to continue the swab collection at 33 of the 144 urban primary health centers located throughout the city.
Most of these centers were closed in July because the number of Covid cases had significantly dipped.
However, with the Covid graph up continuously since the second week of October, Kunal Civic did not take risks and decided to reopen all Swab collection centers because it would improve testing facilities and help fight Covid’s rise in the city.
Swabs are collected from people who show symptoms such as Covid at the Civic clinic sent to SSKM for RT-PCR tests.
In addition to reopening Swab collection centers, the Civic body can add several centers like that in the area where the cases are concentrated.
It is separate, the KMC health department also saves the fleet of its cellular swab collection units ready to allow high-designed residents, housing complexes or apartment buildings to take advantage of the RT-PCR test.
According to KMC health department officials, parts of residents are visiting the Civic Body environmental health clinic with symptoms such as fever, cough and cold.
“Even though we suggested they took the RT-PCR test, we couldn’t send everything to our health clinic for a swab test because the center we collected the swabs now.
We closed the majority of our Swab collection centers because the cases came to the lowest level of all time since August .
Now the time has come to reopen them because of symptoms such as covid mandator must undergo tests after a rise in cases of positive, “said a KMC executive health officer.
KMC Covid’s combat team is also worried about a large number of positive asymptomatic residents.
“We have numbers to show that among those who test positive, asymptomatic majority.
We have reasons to believe that if people voluntarily advance from family or locality where covid patients recover, and tested, some of them will test positive,” said A KMC official.