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Even as Mumbai Covid-19 count the witnesses of a significant increase with each passing day, the lack of coronavirus patients are proving to be one of the main causes of concern for the city’s civic body, which has adopted all the possible means to find them.
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This was a common occurrence in cases where people experience mild symptoms of infection or are asymptomatic and are tested in private laboratories, a senior official of the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation,” he said.
“When the people who make the test will not provide your correct contact details such as address or phone number, we have to go looking for them after a positive test for the infection. Even labs make mistakes while entering the contact details of the patients,” the official said.
For the civic body, which is already loaded with the arduous task of containing the pandemic, it is impossible to detect the patients are a major concern, as they can worsen the situation.
Mumbai reported its first case of coronavirus on March 11, and until Tuesday, the city has recorded over 22,700 cases.
According to a senior civic official, the BMC adopts all possible means to track these missing patients from the search of their names in the voters list or the location of the use of the property card records.
Once found, these patients were admitted to the BMC Covid-19 facilities, depending on their state of health, asymptomatic or otherwise, he said.
“We have to rifle through the card ownership records or lists of voters, and even take the help of the local representatives to locate the patients,” the official said.
In some cases, the civic body had yet to check the CCTV footage of private testing laboratories where they are missing these patients had been tested, he added.
Most of these are impossible to find of the patients were from neighborhoods dominated areas, where people have some fears and misconceptions about the positive tests, that drive them to provide fake data to prevent admission to hospital, the official added. PTI KK ARU ARU
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