BHUBANESWAR: State health officials on Tuesday said they would take the help of panchayat members to track and trace foreign returnees in view of the new COVID-19 outbreak. omicron, being found in the country.
The move comes in the wake of several returnees who are unwilling to undergo surveillance despite repeated calls on their mobile phones. Panchayat members will be involved in identifying such people because Anganwadi and Hope: workers, they get the benefit of knowing about the movement of people coming to the villages.
“Now ASHA and Anganwadi workers are on the task of tracking down those who have recently gone abroad. If they fail to get the required information, they can take the help of ward members and panchayat members like sarpanch. Collector Will issue instructions like how to start monitoring with the help of Panchayats.” Niranjan Mishra, Director, Public Health. He declined to say how many more samples have been sent for genome sequencing. Institute of Life Sciences (ILS) and how many of them have come from abroad. On Monday, samples of six foreign returnees, who tested positive for Covid-19, were sent to ILS for genome sequencing.
According to the health department, around 900 foreign returnees have been identified through the Air Subidha portal. Mishra said, “Since it is proving difficult to trace the returnees, we will physically access them. We will try various methods to track and trace the returnees and test them at the earliest.” are doing.”
The ILS said on Monday that the genomic study of 246 samples sent between November 29 and December 5 would be ready by Friday. Earlier it had sequenced 141 samples, but none contained omicrons.
The move comes in the wake of several returnees who are unwilling to undergo surveillance despite repeated calls on their mobile phones. Panchayat members will be involved in identifying such people because Anganwadi and Hope: workers, they get the benefit of knowing about the movement of people coming to the villages.
“Now ASHA and Anganwadi workers are on the task of tracking down those who have recently gone abroad. If they fail to get the required information, they can take the help of ward members and panchayat members like sarpanch. Collector Will issue instructions like how to start monitoring with the help of Panchayats.” Niranjan Mishra, Director, Public Health. He declined to say how many more samples have been sent for genome sequencing. Institute of Life Sciences (ILS) and how many of them have come from abroad. On Monday, samples of six foreign returnees, who tested positive for Covid-19, were sent to ILS for genome sequencing.
According to the health department, around 900 foreign returnees have been identified through the Air Subidha portal. Mishra said, “Since it is proving difficult to trace the returnees, we will physically access them. We will try various methods to track and trace the returnees and test them at the earliest.” are doing.”
The ILS said on Monday that the genomic study of 246 samples sent between November 29 and December 5 would be ready by Friday. Earlier it had sequenced 141 samples, but none contained omicrons.
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