Medical staff conduct a door-to-door medical screening inside Dharavi slums (AFP)
NEW DELHI: In a move to escalate contact tracing in response to the rising number of Covid cases in various states in the “unlock” phase, the Centre has asked states to ensure contacts of at least 80% of new cases are traced and quarantined within 72 hours of confirmation of the positive case.
The directive, which entails a major step-up in what states are supposed to do, comes in the wake of the infection spreading and even making a return in states like Kerala, despite a “steep upturn” in recoveries per million population as co