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  AIIMS discontinues contact tracing Faced with a staff shortage and resource crunch, the All India Institute of Medical Sciences discontinued contact tracing of exposed healthcare workers and quarantine of asymptomatic contacts. Only symptomatic healthcare workers (HCWs) will be tested and only those testing positive will be isolated and managed as per the clinical condition.  The decisions were taken at a COVID-19 review meeting held under the chairmanship of AIIMS Director Dr Randeep Gul...

Updated: Limited testing per day has common man in distress Share Article AAA The crowd outside a government COVID testing centre at Sarita Vihar on Friday.   | Photo Credit: Nikhil M Babu Limited testing per day has common man in distress People are waiting outside government-run COVID-19 testing centres from as early as 4 a.m. in parts of the city. Of them, many do not get a chance to test as the centres were testing only a limited number of people. One centre took 40 people, while the oth...