Central team pinpoints flaws in State’s COVID protocol

‘Inadequacies in home care and contact tracing are main factors’

The multi-disciplinary team deputed by the Centre to study Kerala’s COVID situation has pinpointed inadequacies in the home care and isolation of COVID-positive patients, poor contact tracing efforts and lack of active surveillance to be the primary reasons for the rise in cases in the State over the past one month. They also reported that the ABCD classification based on test positivity rate (TPR ) had had limited impact on disease transmission. One observation of the team was that there was no active disease surveillance in the community and that case detection was mostly by testing those reporting in hospitals with influenza-like illnesses.