: Covid-19: Centre issues new guidelines for rural areas, advises village-level surveillance #IndiaNEWS The Centre on Sunday issued new coronavirus-related guidelines for peri-urban, rural and tribal

Covid-19: Centre issues new guidelines for rural areas, advises village-level surveillance #IndiaNEWS
The Centre on Sunday issued new coronavirus-related guidelines for peri-urban, rural and tribal areas, taking note of the “gradual ingress??? of the infection in these regions.The health ministry said that every village should undertake active surveillance of influenza-like illness or severe acute respiratory infection periodically by Accredited Social Health Activist, or ASHA workers. Community health officers and auxiliary nurses at public health centres should be trained to perform Rapid Antigen Testing for Covid-19 infection, the ministry said.Depending on the intensity of the surge and the number of cases in villages, contact tracing must be done as far as possible based on the Integrated Disease Surveillance Programme’s guidelines, the release stated.The new guidelines came two days after Prime Minister Narendra Modi expressed concern over the virus spreading fast in rural India. At a high-level meeting on Saturday too, the prime minister said healthcare resources in rural areas must be augmented to focus on door-to-door testing and surveillance.The spread of the coronavirus in rural India has caused alarm among health experts. Noting that nearly 80%-85% of the coronavirus cases are asymptomatic or show mild symptoms, the health ministry guideline released on Sunday advised health workers to counsel such patients to isolate themselves till test results are available.The guidelines also said that a home isolation kit should...Read more

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