Trichy Corporation resumes random Covid-19 testing

TRICHY: After a brief break, the Trichy Corporation resumed Covid-19 mass screening in the city on Wednesday.
Retail vegetable traders in the makeshift vegetable market on Mathuram ground on the East Boulevard (EB) road were screened by the health department of the civic body.
The temporary market was closed in the morning hours. Traders were asked to undergo the screening at the Mathuram Corporation Higher Secondary School.
At least, 50 samples were picked up from the vulnerable populace, including traders with comorbidities and sinus infection.
Officials said that the random sample collection was carried out to ascertain if there is any Covid-19 spread among the traders through asymptomatic carriers. Trichy Corporation commissioner S Sivasubramanian hinted at expanding the mass screening. The civic body that conducts 350 tests per day was facing criticism from the public for poor testing.