Kozhikode steps up vigil against pandemic
The Hindu
TPR rises above 30% in eight local bodies in district
COVID patients in the district who do not have enough facilities at home to remain in quarantine will be shifted to the nearest domiciliary care centre soon as part of preventing further spread of the disease. District Collector N. Tej Lohit Reddy has asked local bodies that do not have a domiciliary care centre at present to set up them immediately. Speaking at the district-level review meeting on Friday, he asked private clinics to mandatorily share information on those who underwent COVID test with officials at panchayat level. Following the decision to increase COVID tests, two testing camps will be held in every local body, one in the evening and another in the afternoon. All local bodies have been asked to open COVID control rooms. Contact tracing will be strengthened in local bodies. All those who turn up at hospital OPs have to undergo COVID test. If anyone refuses to undergo a test, they will be quarantined, the Collector said in the online meeting.More Related News