TRACE PEOPLE BACK FROM ABROAD IN PAST 15 DAYS: CM
LUCKNOW : In view of the new Covid strain reported in some countries, UP chief minister Yogi Adityanath on Tuesday directed officials to trace people who came from abroad in the past 15 days.
The state government also decided to get all people who came to UP from the United Kingdom after December 7 tested for Covid to ensure that they were not infected with the new variant of the virus.
Local administration in all districts should ensure contact tracing and quarantine of all such people who returned from foreign countries, said Yogi while reviewing the Covid-19 situation at a high level meeting at his Lok Bhawan office here Tuesday. He asked the state health department to issue a helpline number in this regard. The authorities should ensure that private laboratories did not charge more than Rs 700 for conducting the RT-PCR test.
LUCKNOW : In view of the new Covid strain reported in some countries, Uttar Pradesh chief minister Yogi Adityanath on Tuesday directed officials to trace people who came from abroad in the past 15 days.
Local administration in all districts should ensure contact tracing and quarantine of all such people who returned from foreign countries, said Yogi while reviewing the Covid-19 situation at a high level meeting at his Lok Bhawan office here Tuesday.
He asked the state health department to issue a helpline number in this regard.
The authorities should ensure that private laboratories did not charge more than Rs 700 for conducting the RT-PCR test. A fee of Rs 900 may be charged, if the test sample was collected from the residence of the person being tested, he said.
He expressed satisfaction over the Covid recovery rate of 95.68% in the state and asked officials to bring about further improvement in it.
“People should be educated about measures for protection against Covid-19. There should be elaborate publicity of the e-sanjivani app to ensure that maximum number of people get benefitted from the online medical consultation service. The number of those using the app has reached three lakh,” said the CM.