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Covid-19: Ahmedabad To Follow South Korean Proactive Screening Model, Launches Mobile Vans For Early Detection
AMC’s Covid-19 surveillance and testing van (Pic via Desh Gujarat)
The Amdavad Municipal Corporation (AMC) has decided to inculcate South Korea’s strategy of pro-active surveillance for early detection of Covid-19 cases in Ahmedabad by launching seven mobile surveillance and testing vans in the city, Desh Gujarat has reported.
Each van will be run by six testing and surveillance staffers comprising of two doctors, staffers and interns each.
As per Municipal Commissioner Vijay Nehra, while the authorities had tested 650 samples from 17 March to 5 April, another 650 were tested in a single day on 6 April. The testing numbers will be increased in the coming days to detect all possible possible cases in the city.
“This is proactive surveillance, a strategy that was used by South Korea to detect the cases at early stage. This initiative will show increase in number of cases in short term, but will help to ease the situation in long term”, Nehra has been quoted as saying.
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