HYDERABAD: On the first day of the fever survey, 1,294 symptomatic people were found in Hyderabad and Ranga Reddy district on Friday. While Hyderabad recorded 1,192 symptomatic cases, Ranga Reddy accounted for 102.
According to the health department figures, close to 1.75 lakh people were surveyed in Hyderabad and Ranga Reddy districts on Friday. In Hyderabad, 840 teams surveyed 35,107 homes, while in Ranga Reddy, 678 teams checked 10,800 households.
The week-long survey initiated by the Telangana health and family welfare department will cover 4,846 colonies in Hyderabad.
“We conducted survey in areas such as Hill Top Colony and Chintal Basti among others. After finding symptomatic persons, we distributed 1,192 Covid-19 kits,” said J Venkati, district medical and health officer (DMHO), Hyderabad.
“People were complaining of having severe body aches and mild fever. We asked all such people to isolate and distributed kits among them,” said Swarajya Lakshmi, Ranga Reddy DMHO.
The fever survey also kicked off in Secunderabad Cantonment areas where 21 health teams surveyed 1,754 houses.
“A total of 60 people were found symptomatic during the survey. We distributed 48 health kits among them,” said Dr H Rajkumari, deputy DMHO of Secunderabad.
During the survey, special emphasis was laid on pregnant women.
Once all the data is collected, the GHMC would take up sanitisation drives in places from where a large number of Covid-19 cases was reported during the fever survey.
Chief secretary Somesh Kumar along with GHMC commissioner DS Lokesh Kumar inspected the door-to-door fever survey.
The chief secretary said that booster dose coverage for frontline workers and senior citizens was at 70%. He also said that private hospitals and diagnostics centres can charge a maximum of Rs 500 for RT-PCR test.
