Pune: The Maharashtra Public Health Department has directed the district to release omicron-positive patients such as the severe Covid case released according to the current guidelines, the Directured Health Service Directorate has been stated.
The current guidelines state that severe cases can only be issued after complete clinical recovery and negative RT-PCR results on the 10th day.
In public health steps to be carried out in the background of the emergence of Omicron, every district and city company has been asked to review the list of their positive cases from November 1, 2021.
Maharashtra supervision officer Dr.
Pradeep kicked to Ti, “This list must look for a positive case With the history of international travel.
Laboratory samples from such cases, which with each lab, must be referred to the sequencing of all genomes as part of routine supervision.
“Awate said the country shared with the district list of tourist lines received from the immigration bureau and Downloaded from the Sugidha water application.
Every district and body Civic must track such cases and do RT-PCR tests.
If found positively, the sample must be referred to the sequencing of all genomes (WGS).
“Positive cases will be accepted according to symptoms in the three-level covid maintenance facility and treated according to the prevalent protocol.
If found negative, the patient must undergo seven days of quarantine house and tested on eighth day.
If found positive, the sample will be sent for WGS, while Positive passengers will be sent to special Covid facilities, “said Awat.
Similar procedures will be followed by airport screening.
Other steps include proactive search cluster / break through infection / infection cases / cases of unusual symptoms to be tested with RT-PCR, ILi / Sari survey in high-risk groups and reactivation of fever clinics to filter the case of ILI / Sari from the community.
All district administration is also asked to focus on increasing testing capacity in the district: a minimum of 140 tests per million per day with the proportion of RT-PCR: rat to 70:30.
Dr.
Sanjay Deshmukh, Assistant Director (Medical), Pune Circle, told Tii, “We have tracked all international tourists, whose list, has been provided by the airport authority.
Efforts are also made to track the travelers, which are not on this list and originated from risky countries or other countries.
“Deshmukh said those who came from risky countries were being tested with RT-PCR, while in the case of tourists who came from countries that were not registered as” risky “, 2% of passengers in flight International must undergo a RT-PCR test at that time.
He added that with the emergence of new variants, daily tests in Pune District are likely to increase 50% compared to the current average.