Sandeep Rana
Tribune News Service
Chandigarh, March 17
With Covid-19 cases increasing, the number of people being quarantined has also gone up, making the contact tracing and quarantine team raise its staff strength again.
"After the cases saw a downward trend, the team had reduced its staff. However, one month ago, it again had to depute more staff from other wings of the MC to cater to the rising number of people to be traced and quarantined," said one of the team members.
In the past one week, 1,211 persons were quarantined by the MC team. In one year, from March last year when the pandemic hit the city till March 16 this year, 56,645 persons have been quarantined in the UT. As many as 2,457 people were in quarantine for the March 1-March 15 period.
"Our job of tracing and quarantining contacts of positive people is on. Though there was a breather earlier, the number of people being quarantined has increased now," said MC Additional Commissioner Anil Kumar Garg, who heads the team.
According to an official, after they get the report of a positive person from the Health Department, they contact the patient on the phone and take the details of his or her recent contacts.
The contacts are quarantined for 17 days and a certificate is issued to them in this regard. In case the person who tests positive is already in a hospital, his contacts are quarantined for 14 days.
Unlike earlier, now it is becoming difficult to trace the infection source of a positive person due to the large number of cases.
"Now, there are many cases, so many people do not come to know from where they have got the infection. People have also started hiding their travel information. They just say we have not gone anywhere," said a member of the tracing team.
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