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LUCKNOW: About 22.2% of the symptomatic migrant workers, have tested positive in Uttar Pradesh, said the principal secretary health and family welfare, Amit Mohan Prasad here on Tuesday.
Speaking in the official report, Prasad said: “About 4.75 lakh migrant workers in quarantine in the home have been studied by the ASHA workers. In total, we screened 565 people with symptoms that were evaluated for the Covid-19.”
Adding that the lab reports 117 and revealed that the 26 positive test, while the remaining 91 were found negative, Prasad said: “This suggests that the positivity rate among migrants was 22.2%, which is several folds high when compared with the corresponding figure of 2.6% UP.”
Follow home quarantine rules strictly: Prasad migrants
Following the finding, Prasad urged the migrant workers to strictly follow the rules of home quarantine in the larger interest of the members of his family. Migrants, in fact, a large part of the new cases reported on Tuesday. According to the health authorities, the number of new cases had already been registered the maximum for a day — 292.
Senior government officials, who prefer to remain anonymous, revealed that 70% of new cases in the state were migrants. Taking into account that between May 1 and 18, 2296 covid of the cases that have emerged in the ABOVE, 1600 of them could be migrants.
In addition, the different laboratories of the state took place almost 94,000 tests between May 1 and
18. The 1600 migrants cases, the form about 1.7% of the samples analyzed. This also suggests a case of the positivity rate of migrant workers in place is approximately 1.7%. Even an underestimated 1% of the cases of positivity of the average rate of 14,000 cases in the state.
Health officials, however, have set their hopes on the detection and follow up of activities of migrant workers. Director secretary Prasad said that the forecast of a migrant wave of cases of coronavirus in the state, the department of health had launched a two-layer diagnostic plan.
“In the first layer, the migrant workers pass through the thermal scan. The clear ones are sent home on a 21 day quarantine to the back, they are sent to the plant quarantine where they are tested again after seven days. Those who test negative they are sent home for two weeks home quarantine. The positives are, of course, admitted covid hospitals,” he said.
The second layer of detection is performed by ASHA workers. “The ASHAs have been asked to keep track of migrant workers in their town and the flag of the health care system, even to the slightest doubt or the appearance of the symptoms,” he said.
The health officials also reported that the ASHAS said to take stock of migrant workers at least 3-4 times in the entire period. In addition to this, the state government is using the data collected in the Aarogya respective eras of the application. “As many as 20768 calls have been made on the basis of Aarogya respective eras alerts. Among the suspects, 181 are in medical quarantine, while the 50 positive test result. Of the confirmed cases, 23 have been sent home after complete recovery,” he said. He said that the surveillance activities have been intensified in the state. “Until now, 66.25 lakh houses have been studied with a total coverage of the population of 3.30 crore,” Prasad said, adding that there was no shortage of medicines and equipment necessary for the treatment. “We are in a comfortable position, as far as the infrastructure of health and medicine is concerned,” he said.
Speaking in the official report, Prasad said: “About 4.75 lakh migrant workers in quarantine in the home have been studied by the ASHA workers. In total, we screened 565 people with symptoms that were evaluated for the Covid-19.”
Adding that the lab reports 117 and revealed that the 26 positive test, while the remaining 91 were found negative, Prasad said: “This suggests that the positivity rate among migrants was 22.2%, which is several folds high when compared with the corresponding figure of 2.6% UP.”
Follow home quarantine rules strictly: Prasad migrants
Following the finding, Prasad urged the migrant workers to strictly follow the rules of home quarantine in the larger interest of the members of his family. Migrants, in fact, a large part of the new cases reported on Tuesday. According to the health authorities, the number of new cases had already been registered the maximum for a day — 292.
Senior government officials, who prefer to remain anonymous, revealed that 70% of new cases in the state were migrants. Taking into account that between May 1 and 18, 2296 covid of the cases that have emerged in the ABOVE, 1600 of them could be migrants.
In addition, the different laboratories of the state took place almost 94,000 tests between May 1 and
18. The 1600 migrants cases, the form about 1.7% of the samples analyzed. This also suggests a case of the positivity rate of migrant workers in place is approximately 1.7%. Even an underestimated 1% of the cases of positivity of the average rate of 14,000 cases in the state.
Health officials, however, have set their hopes on the detection and follow up of activities of migrant workers. Director secretary Prasad said that the forecast of a migrant wave of cases of coronavirus in the state, the department of health had launched a two-layer diagnostic plan.
“In the first layer, the migrant workers pass through the thermal scan. The clear ones are sent home on a 21 day quarantine to the back, they are sent to the plant quarantine where they are tested again after seven days. Those who test negative they are sent home for two weeks home quarantine. The positives are, of course, admitted covid hospitals,” he said.
The second layer of detection is performed by ASHA workers. “The ASHAs have been asked to keep track of migrant workers in their town and the flag of the health care system, even to the slightest doubt or the appearance of the symptoms,” he said.
The health officials also reported that the ASHAS said to take stock of migrant workers at least 3-4 times in the entire period. In addition to this, the state government is using the data collected in the Aarogya respective eras of the application. “As many as 20768 calls have been made on the basis of Aarogya respective eras alerts. Among the suspects, 181 are in medical quarantine, while the 50 positive test result. Of the confirmed cases, 23 have been sent home after complete recovery,” he said. He said that the surveillance activities have been intensified in the state. “Until now, 66.25 lakh houses have been studied with a total coverage of the population of 3.30 crore,” Prasad said, adding that there was no shortage of medicines and equipment necessary for the treatment. “We are in a comfortable position, as far as the infrastructure of health and medicine is concerned,” he said.
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