In accordance with the rules, all incoming foreign flyers will be tested by RT-PCR upon arrival at the airports, and all positive samples will be genotyped.
Digital
Desk: The Karnataka government published new guidelines on Thursday in response
to an increase in coronavirus cases, mandating random screening of all arriving
international travellers. The state of Karnataka has stated that it will
implement the instructions issued by the Union Ministry of Health in February.
"Genomic sequencing should be performed on all positive specimens."
Passengers who test positive should be kept under surveillance, quarantined,
and managed according to current protocols, according to the guidelines.
In
accordance with the rules, all incoming foreign flyers will be tested by RT-PCR
upon arrival at the airports, and all positive samples will be genotyped.
Karnataka
Health Commissioner D Randeep has released new rules for the revamped
surveillance plan.
Full list of
guidelines
· The healthcare facilities will report
Influence-Like Illness (ILI) patients from the OPD.
·
Every 20th patient should be tested for
Covid-19.
· Monitoring Severe Acute Respiratory Illness
(SARI) patients in all government and select tertiary private hospitals and
testing them for Covid-19 by RT-PCR is also mandatory.
· Community-based surveillance will be done by
event-based surveillance through media scanning.
·
As
the number of COVID cases in Karnataka continued to rise, the instructions were
issued. On Wednesday, Bengaluru saw another jump in the Covid tally, with 615
cases of Karnataka's 648 new infections reported.
According
to data supplied by the health department, Bengaluru also had one death for the
first time since June 5. The number of active cases in the state increased to
3,997, with 3,843 from Bangalore.
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