Covid: CM for focusing on testing of high risk groups

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Covid: CM for focusing on testing of high risk groups

Monday, 28 September 2020 | PNS | Lucknow

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath underlined the need to intensify surveillance and contact tracing in order to keep COVID-19 positivity rate below 5 per cent and the death rate below 1 per cent in the state.   

Yogi said that there was need to target the high risk groups and make them undergo testing. He said these combined endeavours were the only way to keep death rate low and the coronavirus spread under control.     

The chief minister was reviewing the COVID-19 situation in the state, especially in the 16 districts where more than 100 cases have been reported within a week. He has already deployed nodal officers in these districts and has asked them to work out an effective strategy in consultation with the district magistrate, chief medical officer and senior Health  and Medical Education departments’ officers.

The chief minister said that testing should be focused and one-third of the tests should be through RT-PCR and the rest by rapid antigen method. He pointed out that the focus on testing was less in Lucknow and it should be increased.

Asking officials to activate the rapid response teams through Integrated Command and Control Centre (ICCC) in every district, the chief minister said that the district magistrates and chief medical officers should hold regular meetings in Covid hospitals in the morning and at ICCC in the evening.

He asked the officials to create micro containment zones with areas more reduced and more compact than the containment zones earlier. The PRD jawans, NCC cadets and social workers and volunteers should be involved in this, he said. 

Yogi emphasised that the Case Fatality Rate (CFR) should be kept under control and in the district where it was more than one, contact tracing and surveillance should be more aggressive.     

The hospitals should be equipped with all the facilities, including medical oxygen and ventilators, he said.

Yogi directed the Health and Medical Education department to make available facilities of virtual ICUs in all the Level-2 and Level-3 hospitals.     He said mass awareness drive should be continued with the public address system in place. 

The chief minister directed the nodal officers to submit their daily report to the CM Office as well. He said that social distancing norms should be followed and enforced.

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