New Corona Strain:Nagaland State health department to track and monitor UK-returnees
The Nagaland state Health department has issued guidelines in accordance with the National Task Force (NTF) directives to contain the spread of the new strain of virus.
| 29 Dec 2020 10:54 AM GMT
Kohima: The state department of Health and Family Welfare, Nagaland is going to implement immediate strategies to enable tracking and monitoring of passengers returned from the United Kingdom (UK). The decision comes after news of the spread of new strain of the Covid virus emerged in media, officials stated in a press release.
Dr. Vizolie Z. Suokhrie, Principal Director of the Health department said that the passengers returned from UK after December 20 would be tracked by the State Surveillance Units (SSUs) and District Surveillance Units (DSUs) under Integrated Disease Surveillance Programme of Union Health Department. He further mentioned that testing of the returnees as per the ICMR guidelines
On Sunday, the northeastern state s COVID-19 recovery rate was 96.14 per cent. Representational Image | Photo Credit: PTI
Kohima: In the wake of the emergence of a mutated strain of the virus in the UK, all persons who have come to Nagaland after December 20 have been asked to report to their district-level coronavirus task forces for compulsory COVID-19 testing, a senior health official said on Monday. Those arriving after the issuance of this circular are to self declare at the point of entry, inform their respective district task forces and self isolate themselves for standard testing protocols, Principal Director of Health and Family Welfare, Dr Vizolie Z. Suokhrie, said in a press release.