NCR district is among best in contact tracing

Jind: Kaithal, Bhiwani, Faridabad and Charkhi Dadri districts of Haryana topped in contact tracing in the weekly status report which had been compiled till Sunday, whereas Sirsa was the the worst of.

The four districts managed to trace 100% contacts of Covid-19 patients, while Sirsa traced just 71% contacts, according to data under Integrated Disease Surveillance Project (IDSP) .

Health officials in Faridabad managed the feat, even as the district has been among the worst-hit by the virus. It had 8,89 cases where contact tracing was required. Sirsa civil surgeon Surender Nain said, “We have been performing well, but there were some holidays, including Rakshabandhan and Eid, that deelayed work and we had some troubke in getting contact details in Dhani. In some cases, people are hard to find if they give their sample outside the district. Also, sometimes, the server failed to upload the entire data, which decreased the tracing rate.”

Jind deputy civil surgeon Pale Ram Kataria said IDSP issued a weekly status report of contact tracing in which Jind was performing well. “However, due to holidays we couldn’t approach every locations. But, this week, we traced out 98% contacts of patients,” he said.