Covid-19! Karnataka ups surveillance measures, arrivals from Japan and Thailand in focus

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3 years ago News Desk

Bengaluru: The Covid-19 situation in Karnataka is well under control, with a daily average of 110 cases and Test Positivity Rate ranging between 0.9 1.1%. Currently, 2% of International arrivals from designated countries are screened randomly at Airports, as per the guidelines of Government of India.

Further, in view of the recent spurt of Covid-19 cases in China, Australia, Japan, Thailand, Vietnam, New Zealand, Russia and South Korea, further surveillance may be required.

Of the eight countries, direct flight services to Bengaluru are available only from Japan and Thailand. Hence, it is instructed to initiate the following surveillance measures for those arriving from Japan and Thailand.

1. At Bengaluru International Airport and Mangaluru International Airport

a. The arrivals from the above mentioned countries should undergo thermal screening on arrival.

b. Testing through RT-PCR should be done for the symptomatics at the Airport testing laboratory. And for those found Positive, the samples shall be sent for Genome Sequencing.

c. Further treatment and management of covid patient is to be followed as per the
State protocol.

d. The daily report of the same as per the annexure 1 attached should be submitted to the Project Director – IDSP.

At District level and BBMP

a. Tele monitoring of the above mentioned International Passengers (Japan and Thailand) should be done at their respective districts for fourteen days through Call centre.

b. If the person develops symptoms during the follow-up period, testing treatment and management of the case should be taken up as per the State protocol by the district teams.

c. The Positive samples shall be sent for Genome Sequencing.

d. The daily status of the same as per the annexure 2 attached should be submitted to the Project Director – IDSP.

– Team Mysoorunews