UP govt increases Zika surveillance, initiates statewide doorstep survey

The Uttar Pradesh government has increased surveillance to check the spread of Zika virus and initiated doorstep surveys throughout the state to bring down transmission levels.

Scaling up preventive measures to eliminate the spread of Zika virus, the Uttar Pradesh government has intensified comprehensive surveillance and initiated doorstep surveys throughout the state to bring down transmission levels.

Under the stringent containment mechanism implemented by the state government to check the spread of Zika, health workers are carrying out an extensive exercise of mass-scale sanitisation, statewide surveillance drives, spraying of anti-larva chemicals, fogging and cleanliness drives, an official statement said.