Seven vans to collect samples in Ahmedabad

AHMEDABAD: The AMC has rolled out seven Covid testing vans, one for each zone of the city. These vans will carry out surveillance and collect samples for testing.
“Since Monday, the AMC had adopted the strategy of intensive surveillance and now we have decided to carry out aggressive testing,” municipal commissioner Vijay Nehra said. “The AMC had adopted the strategy of contact tracing as it was done in Singapore and now we are adopting a policy in line with South Korea’s aggressive testing.”
These vans were flagged off from the AMC headquarters on Tuesday.“Each van will be have a three-member surveillance team equipped with a thermal gun,” Nehra said. “Also in attendance will be a doctor from a medical college and two interns who will collect samples.”
Initially, the service will cover clusters where coronavirus patients were found. “We are planning to check each potential case and collect samples,” Nehra said.
The surveillance teams will first check the temperature of all people of a cluster. If a person is found to have fever, his or her sample will be collected. “This proactive surveillance will help us test a large number of people,” Nehra said. Nehra said that over the past 20 days, the AMC has collected 650 samples and now over the past 24 hours an equal number of samples were collected.