New Delhi: The Union Health Ministry Saturday wrote to Jammu and Kashmir government to take necessary steps under the ‘Test-Track-Treat-Vaccinate-Covid Appropriate Behaviour’ strategy to control the spread of COVID-19 and reduce fatality.
The move comes given the rising cases of infection, weekly positivity rates, and weekly deaths in some districts of J&K.
Referring to a letter sent to all states and union territories on November 27 in the context of the new Omicron variant, Union Health Secretary Rajesh Bhushan Saturday said that all states had been advised to undertake enhanced surveillance of international travellers, monitor emerging hotspots, prompt contact tracing of positive people, besides sending all positive samples for genome sequencing, early identification of cases and review of health infrastructure preparedness, and most importantly to focus on IEC and community sensitisation.
Bhushan said J&K had reported 4806 new cases in the month ending December 3, with a few districts like Kathua, Jammu, Ganderbal, and Baramulla showing an increase in the previous week.