Extensive sero-surveillance in Capital Complex Region in Arunachal Pradesh

ITANAGAR: The Arunachal Pradesh government will go for extensive sero surveillance in the Capital Complex for all the primary and secondary contacts of COVID-19 cases including vulnerable groups, a senior Health department official informed here on Thursday.

The State Health authorities will perform rapid tests by Antigen and Elisa kits of the primary and secondary contacts of the infected persons in the Capital region besides all vulnerable people, after the ongoing lockdown is lifted, Health Secretary P Parthiban told reporters in a virtual press conference here.

He further said that the Health department has already constituted rapid response teams to conduct Antigen and Elisa tests on the primary and secondary contacts of COVID-19-infected people in the Capital region; and the exercise would be intensified in the post-lockdown phase.

"Our basic aim is to identify the primary and secondary contacts of the infected persons and to flattened the curve of the virus so that the pandemic can be contained," Parthiban flanked by Home Commissioner Kaling Tayeng and Capital Complex Deputy Commissioner Komkar Dulom disclosed.

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