30 more RRTs to check on home isolation cases
Bhubaneswar: The Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) on Wednesday inducted 30 more rapid response teams (RRTs) that will be visiting Covid positive patients, who are in home isolation. There is a doctor in each team.
More than 50 per cent positive cases in the state and 30 per cent in the city are in home isolation . Patients with no or mild symptoms are being advised home treatment. The number of cases in home isolation will increase as 80 per cent patients are asymptomatic.
The number of positive cases are also rising with more tests being done. So, we have exclusively engaged 30 RRTs, which will look after treatment of people under home isolation, said BMC nodal officer (Covid management) Suvendu Sahu.
He said the recovery rate of patients in home isolation is encouraging as they are getting a support system in case of any doubt in their minds. The call centre’s psychotherapists and clinical psychologists are counselling them. During the home isolation phase, the patients have been asked to update city control room in case of need so that intervention can be made accordingly.
So far in the city, 3,026 patients are under home treatment out of which 1,800 have recovered and rest are active cases. On Wednesday, the city reported highest single day spike of 541 Covid positive cases out of which 220 were from quarantine (home and institutional) and rest local cases. The quarantine cases include 23 staff of a private hospital and 16 police personnel.
On Wednesday, 300 patients recovered from Covid taking the total number of recoveries to 6,935. With 44 deaths and 6,935 recoveries, the city now has 4,282 active cases. The city’s Covid count has now jumped to 11,273.
The BMC said active surveillance has been continuing by multiple survey teams in slum and non-slum areas. Besides tracking returnees, the survey teams are taking daily health updates from the slum residents. On Tuesday, the highest number of 70,000 people were brought under survey.