Testing will be intensified: civic chief
The Hindu
Contractors, factory owners cooperating with BBMP to hold testing camps for workers
While the number of COVID-19 positive cases and positivity rate has decreased, citizens must continue to be cautious and follow COVID-19 appropriate behaviour, and the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) would now intensify testing, said civic chief Gaurav Gupta. Speaking to reporters here on Monday, he said that testing squads are being sent to factories, bus stations and railway stations, construction and migrant workers camps. Around 70,000 tests are already being conducted in the city every day, which is higher than in other States, he claimed and added that contractors and factory owners were cooperating with the BBMP to hold testing camps for their workers on their premises.
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