Aditi Tandon
New Delhi, December 22
India on Tuesday ordered surveillance of all passengers who travelled from or transited through the UK in the last four weeks and laid down protocols for testing and isolation.
The new set of Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) issued by the Health Ministry describes the activities to be undertaken at the point of entry and in the community for all international passengers who have travelled from or transited through the UK in the past 4 weeks (from November 25 to December 23).
All international travellers as described above will be required to declare as per existing procedure their travel history (of past 14 days) and fill up the Self Declaration Form to be screened for Covid.
“The fragility of the epidemiological situation is underscored by the substantial disease burden in the acute healthcare system with the trend in hospitalised Covid-19 cases decreasing slowly against high absolute levels. Moreover, the number of confirmed cases in intensive care and deaths associated with Covid-19 are not reducing,” the letter added.
Nphet also said there is a “persistently high incidence in older persons, a population group most vulnerable to the adverse health outcomes associated with the diseases”.
The group recommended that the HSE establish a national outbreak control team which will work with the HSE’s National Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control team to bring “consistency of approach to management of outbreaks of covid-19 in acute hospitals”
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