The Uttar Pradesh government is launching a state level sample collection campaign today to find out the level of corona infection among the different sections of society. The campaign will run for one week in which various clusters of the society will be tested which includes delivery boys, newspaper vendors and other daily workers. Principal secretary health, Amit Mohan Prasad said that under this campaign samples to those people will be taken who move frequently due to their work.
AIR correspondent reports, today on the first day the campaign team of health workers will visit old age homes, women’s hostels, orphanage and juvenile homes and will take samples of the inmates. Tomorrow, on Saturday samples will be taken from slums of city areas. Similarly those people who are involved in home delivery, newspaper vendors, employees of hospitals, milk suppliers, security guards, pharmacist salesman, and clerical staff of hospitals will be tested on different days.
The aim of this exercise is to get the information about the spread of Corona infection so that measures can be taken to control this.
He said that such a campaign was launched among migrant workers in 18 districts of state to know the level of infection.
In these districts 72 villages were chosen where 50 or migrants have been returned and after completion of their 15 days Quarantine other persons of the village were tested to get the information about the spread of virus. The motive was to understand how successfully the workers spent the quarantine period and whether they infected other villages also or not. He said that all reports of tested persons came negative.
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