In #India's 🇮🇳 most populous state Uttar Pradesh, the state gov. has initiated house-to-house active case finding of #COVID19 in rural areas to contain transmission by testing people with symptoms for rapid isolation, disease management & contact tracing
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Monitoring teams visit homes in 97,941 villages to test everyone with #COVID19 symptoms. Those who tested positive are:
✅isolated
✅given a medicine kit with advice on disease management
All contacts of those who tested positive are quarantined & tested.
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People without signs of #COVID19 are urged to get vaccinated & follow COVID-appropriate behaviours to prevent transmission in rural areas of Uttar Pradesh 🇮🇳, home to 230 million people.
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The Uttar Pradesh state government has deployed 141,610 teams and 21,242 supervisors from the state health department to ensure all rural areas are covered with this #COVID19 case finding activity.
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WHO supports the #COVID19 tracing activity by providing:
✅training
✅micro planning
✅real-time monitoring
✅reporting support
On the first day of the activity alone, WHO field officers monitored over 2,000 gov. teams & visited over 10,000 households.
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