New Delhi: The Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare in India has issued new COvid-19 guidelines. The ministry issued the new guidelines to prevent the spread of the coronavirus infection in peri-urban, rural and tribal areas of the country.
As per the new set of guidelines issued by the ministry, in every village, active surveillance should be done for influenza-like illness/severe acute respiratory infections(ILI/SARI) periodically by ASHA with help of Village Health Sanitation and Nutrition Committee (VHSNC). They should also test identified suspected cases. For this they should also follow the ICMR guidelines.
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The health workers must also give counselling to the patient to isolate themselves till test results are available. “Those asymptomatic but having history of high-risk exposure to COVID patients (exposure of more than 15 mins without a mask within 6 feet distance) should be advised quarantine and tested as per ICMR protocol,” the report says.
