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Fever Survey in Udupi to identify COVID-19 patients
The Hindu
Udupi Deputy Commissioner M. Kurma Rao on Monday ordered a Fever Survey in the district to identify COVID-19 positive patients and ensure their isolation and treatment for the effective containment of
Udupi Deputy Commissioner M. Kurma Rao on Monday ordered a Fever Survey in the district to identify COVID-19 positive patients and ensure their isolation and treatment for the effective containment of the spread of the pandemic. Chairing a meeting on COVID-19 containment measures at the district office, Mr. Rao directed Health Department officials to get ASHAs and anganwadi volunteers visit every household in the district and collect information about those having fever. They should ensure that those having fever undergo COVID-19 test so as to facilitate isolation of people having COVID-19 symptoms and also effective containment of the spread of the disease. He appealed to the general public to cooperate with the administration in conducting the survey so that the district becomes free of the pandemic.![](/newspic/picid-1269750-20250217064624.jpg)
When fed into Latin, pusilla comes out denoting “very small”. The Baillon’s crake can be missed in the field, when it is at a distance, as the magnification of the human eye is woefully short of what it takes to pick up this tiny creature. The other factor is the Baillon’s crake’s predisposition to present less of itself: it moves about furtively and slides into the reeds at the slightest suspicion of being noticed. But if you are keen on observing the Baillon’s crake or the ruddy breasted crake in the field, in Chennai, this would be the best time to put in efforts towards that end. These birds live amidst reeds, the bulrushes, which are likely to lose their density now as they would shrivel and go brown, leaving wide gaps, thereby reducing the cover for these tiddly birds to stay inscrutable.