Contact tracing helps dist identify many +ve cases

Coimbatore: The health department has been betting big on contact tracing to curb the spread of Covid-19 in the district and as on July 29 it had collected throat and nasal swabs from 38,271 people through the same. It accounts for 31.44% of total number of samples that were collected in the district.
According to the data available with TOI, the health department has collected samples from about 1.21 lakh people in the district since March. At least 67,051 people were screened in July alone, which is nearly four times the number of people who were screened in April and May together.
Around 5.2% (2,008) of people, who were identified through contact tracing, was tested positive for the virus. To say, 43% of the total positive cases in the district as on July 29 (4,647) was identified through contact tracing.
According to a city corporation source, they had deployed domestic breeding checkers for door-to-door survey in all the areas and they had traced more than 10 contacts per a positive patient. tnn