Virendra Singh Rawat
Lucknow / Nov 29, 2021
The Uttar Pradesh government has sounded alert over new Covid-19 mutant ‘Omicron’ detected in several countries including South Africa, Hong Kong and Botswana.
All inbound travellers from these countries will be subjected to strict screening and genome sequencing to mitigate spread of infection. The airports have come under higher vigilance and scrutiny.
In his advisory, UP additional chief secretary, medical and health, Amit Mohan Prasad has instructed all the chief medical officers (CMO) to screen travellers arriving from, or transiting through, these countries.
Their samples will be collected for genome sequencing, and the district surveillance officers will follow-up with their contacts as well. Genome sequencing is a tool to check if a certain variant of Covid is present in the population.
Meanwhile, strict vigil will be kept on foreigners coming to Agra, Prayagraj, Varanasi, Lucknow and Kanpur.
Besides, the state health department has asked premier medical institutes, including Lucknow based SGPGI and King George’s Medical University (KGMU), where patients come from abroad for treatment, to compulsorily screen all patients.
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