Trace, Track, Quarantine: Karnataka Amps Covid Surveillance Over Omicron
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In order to prevent a third wave, officials must ensure enhanced surveillance of contacts and identify them within 24 hours of someone testing positive, a health department circular said.
Karnataka has asked officials to trace, track and quarantine primary and secondary contacts of Covid patients in the state in a fresh notification issued by the state's health department.
In order to prevent a third Covid wave, officials must ensure enhanced surveillance of contacts and identify them within 24 hours of someone testing positive, it said.
Primary contacts must quarantine at home for seven days and be tested on the 1st and 8th days, it added.
The notification shares figures of around 300 new cases being reported in the state every day with a test positivity rate of 0.25% to 0.3%. 19 cases of Omicron have been detected in the state so far and if cases are left unchecked it could trigger a tidal wave of new infections, it said.
