'Detect links to find source of infection'

Kanpur: Divisional commissioner Sudhir M Bobde at a review meeting held here on Friday directed the officials to detect the back link of corona positive persons in order to know the source of their infection.

In another direction, he instructed the officials to collect two contact numbers of each positive patient, one of his family and the other of his relatives.

He directed the officials to trace each and every patient found suffering from cough, coryza and cold in and outside a hotspot and buffer zone and do their sampling minutely. He also asked them to open the third lab of LLR hospital at the earliest.

During the meeting, the commissioner sought the progress report of the victims who got injured in Bilhaur accident and are being treated at ICU of LLR hospital .

The health officials informed the commissioner that that they had collected samples of 372 persons and 159 out of them were of migrant workers.