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With around 60 people identified to have returned to the state from the United Kingdom in the past fortnight, Odisha government Thursday asked the authorities to undertake intense surveillance, contact tracing, RT-PCR test and genome sequencing of all incoming passengers, official sources said. Additional Chief Secretary, Health and Family Welfare, P K Mohapatra in a letter to all district collectors, municipal corporations, chief medical and public health officers said that the surveillance, contact tracing and tests of persons who have returned from the UK is essential as the mutated strain of SARS-CoV-2 have higher transmissibility as compared to the earlier strains.
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BHUBANESWAR: A 34-year-old man, who returned to the city from the UK, was found to be Covid positive on Wednesday. The Bhubaneswar resident had returned from the country on December 18.
Officials in the Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) said the man was under home isolation. “After returning from the UK, he developed flu-like symptoms and got himself tested at a private laboratory. After his Covid status was uploaded on the portal of the Regional Medical Research Centre (RMRC), the BMC came to know that he had returned from the UK,” said the BMC’s nodal officer (Covid management) Suvendu Sahu. Contact tracing was on to ascertain if he had come in touch with others, Sahu said.
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RANCHI: As the state health department is gearing up to launch a drive for Covid-19 vaccination once it is launched by the Centre, experts in the field of infectious diseases management said a serosurvey can help the administration plan a strategy to identify priority zones for the jabs.
Serosruveillance provides an estimate of the levels of antibodies in blood which safeguards the human body against infectious diseases and is considered the gold standard for measuring a population’s immunity following past infections or vaccinations. It is an important component of disease surveillance and complements notification, hospitalisation, mortality and immunisation coverage data.