24k new antigen kits, Gzb sets target of 4k tests daily

Ghaziabad: The district has received 24,000 new antigen kits and has set a target of 4,000 tests daily.
Chief medical officer NK Gupta said, “We have received a new lot of 24,000 antigen kits and we will be testing at least 4,000 people on a daily basis. We intend to identify the infected people quickly to prevent the spread of the virus.” He added that most patients have mild symptoms and they are recovering in L-1 hospitals.
Meanwhile, district magistrate (DM) Ajay Shankar Pandey said that containment zones are their focus. “A review of these spots is being carried out periodically. Officials have been asked to pay more attention to areas from where five or more people have tested positive,” he said.
Officials said that through an intensive testing drive, the health department has collected 45,425 samples so far from containment zones, of which 1,090 were found to be positive, recording a positivity rate of 2.4%. So far, 620 people have been discharged from hospitals after treatment and the recovery rate is 61%.
With more than 1,400 active Covid cases, the district has a total of 362 containment zones. Of these, 173 (category 2) zones have more than one Covid case while the rest 189 (category 1) have only one case. Besides, Loni and Khoda still remain high-focus areas for the administration with 30 and 23 containment zones, respectively.
The DM added that they are working on a micro-level action plan to trace every patient in containment zones.
“As part of it, several departments are working together under the direction of the incident commander. As soon as a positive case comes, the health department is informed about it,” the DM said.
He added that police stations of the area are also being provided information through the portal. So far, 109 patients who have become incommunicado by turning their phones off have been traced through police surveillance.
Officials said that surveillance teams in the district have surveyed 38.38 lakh people in 12.26 lakh houses in the containment zones till date, of which 1,639 had symptoms.