Utter Pradesh, India’s most populous state has initiated a house-to-house active case finding of COVID-19 in rural areas.
It has been led by Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath to contain transmission by testing people with symptoms for rapid isolation, disease management, and contact tracing.
The UP government has deployed 141,610 teams and 21,242 supervisors to cover 97,941 villages in 75 districts over five days of this activity, which began on 5 May.
World Health Organisation has called this the most comprehensive drive to overcome COVID19.
In #India's 🇮🇳 most populous state Uttar Pradesh, the state gov. has initiated house-to-house active case finding of #COVID19 in rural areas to contain transmission by testing people with symptoms for rapid isolation, disease management & contact tracing
— World Health Organization (WHO) (@WHO) May 10, 2021
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On the first day itself WHO field officers monitored over 2,000 government teams that visited over 10,000 households in villages and remote hamlets to test everyone with symptoms of COVID-19 using Rapid Antigen Tests (RAT) kits.
In this drive, those who test positive are isolated and given a medicine kit with advice on disease management. All contacts of those who test positive are quarantined and tested. People without signs of COVID-19 are told to get vaccinated and follow “COVID-appropriate behaviours” to prevent transmission.
WHO is also working along with the Uttar Pradesh government in training and micro-planning for the activity the drive.
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