A team from the Ministry of Health has said that about 10 to 20 pilgrims and 10 to 20 local people are being reported positive everyday during the ongoing festival.
A team from the Ministry of Health has reported that about 10 to 20 pilgrims and 10 to 20 locals are calling COVID-19 positive every day at the ongoing Kumbh Mela in Haridwar, Uttarakhand. Such a rate had the potential to rapidly turn cases into ‘prefixes’.
The Uttarakhand government was also told that the daily trial numbers in Haridwar, around 50,000 rapid antigen tests and 5000 RT PCR tests were insufficient, given the expected number of pilgrims at the Kumbh Mela.
The team, led by Sujit Kumar Singh, director of the National Center for Disease Control (NCDC) in Delhi, visited Uttarakhand on 16 and 17 March.
Rajesh Bhushan, Secretary, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, wrote a letter to Uttarakhand Chief Secretary Utpal Kumar Singh on Sunday highlighting the concerns of the NCDC-led team.
The Government of Uttarakhand has been advised to follow the guidelines issued by the Ministry of Health, such as display signage, to raise awareness of self-reporting symptoms of COVID-19 thoughtful cases, to increase testing, in particular, potential In broadcasting areas. Continuation of periodic testing of frontline workers before and after the major auspicious days of the 30-day festival. To increase the number of cases, the state must be “sending immediately” samples for genome sequencing.
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