Uttar Pradesh, India’s most populous state, has begun house-to-house active case finding of COVID-19 in rural areas in order to control transmission by checking people with symptoms for rapid isolation, disease management, and touch tracing.
The World Health Organization (WHO) took care of the state’s attempts to combat the COVID-19 crisis and shared it on Twitter.
Monitoring teams are visiting homes in 97,941 villages to screen anyone who is showing signs of COVID-19. Many that test positive are isolated and given a drug kit as well as illness control recommendations.
Many of those who tested positive’s interactions have been quarantined and tested.
People who do not show symptoms of COVID-19 are advised to get vaccinated and practice COVID-appropriate behaviors to avoid transmission in Uttar Pradesh’s rural areas, which are home to approximately 230 million people.
According to the WHO survey, the Uttar Pradesh state government has mobilized 141,610 teams and 21,242 supervisors from the state health department to ensure that all rural areas are protected by this COVID-19 case finding operation.
Meanwhile, the total number of COVID-19 vaccine doses administered in the country surpassed 18 crores on Tuesday; more than 90 lakh doses remain available, and more than seven lakh will be dispatched with the vaccine within 3 days.
On Monday, Uttar Pradesh reported 21,331 new COVID-19 incidents, bringing the total to 15,24,767, with 278 deaths bringing the death toll to 15,742.
As a result, the number of daily deaths and cases in the state has decreased for the fourth day in a row.
The Uttar Pradesh government said in a statement released here that Kanpur had 30 fatalities, Lucknow had 26, Jhansi had 16, Azamgarh had 15, Hardoi and Gonda had 12, and Gautam Buddh Nagar had 10.
Meerut had the newest incidents, with 2,269, followed by Lucknow with 1,274, Gorakhpur with 1,031, and Gautam Buddh Nagar with 1,026.
As many as 29,709 COVID-19 patients stabilized and were released in a single day. The overall number of patients discharged in the state has risen to 12,83,754, according to the release.
According to the study, there are 2,25,271 active COVID-19 cases in Uttar Pradesh.
