Central team takes stock of COVID situation
The Hindu
State’s home care and isolation under focus
The Central team engaged by the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare to look into the current pandemic situation in Kerala and the steady rise in case graph met senior administrators and the State’s expert committee on COVID-19 here on Monday. The team is said to have drawn attention to the State’s home care and isolation, which, according to it, needed better supervision and management. The State might need to evolve a new strategy for containment and for checking disease transmission, it has been pointed out Contact tracing and targetted testing were also focussed upon. The team also raised the possibility of a new SARS-CoV-2 variant in circulation in the State. However, it was pointed out that the State was regularly sequencing virus samples, and all samples tested till date have yielded only the Delta variant.More Related News