Reviewing the current scenario of COVID-19 in the country, the State’s COVID-19 Technical Advisory Committee (TAC) in its recent meeting has recommended testing of all household and primary contacts of positive cases at work places.
Since January, the State has been following the ICMR’s purposive testing strategy that said contacts of infected patients do not need to be tested unless identified as high-risk based on age.
The TAC, which revisited the ICMR’s circular (on purposive testing) dated January 10 when the Omicron driven third wave was peaking in the country, has advised the State to ramp up testing to up to 30,000 per day. Of these 15,000 tests should be in Bengaluru and the remaining in the rest of Karnataka, stated the TAC’s report.
