AP to test 5% passengers in trains from T

Vijaywada: The state health department has decided to randomly test 5% passengers in each compartment of trains originating from Telangana. The decision was taken in anticipation of a huge number of passengers coming to Andhra Pradesh from Hyderabad. After observing the positivity pattern and disease prevalence for a week, the 5% sampling strategy may be modified.
Currently, the state is collecting swabs from all people arriving from other states.The travel history of passengers will be determined based on their tickets and passengers would be thermally screened upon disembarkation from the trains. If found asymptomatic, they will be allowed to go home.
This comes in the backdrop of a state secretariat employee, who had had travelled from Hyderabad, testing positive two days ago.
The employee, a junior level employee working in agriculture department, was stranded in Hyderabad for the last two months due to lockdown. He reached Amaravati as the AP government arranged buses for stranded employees to travel back, after getting permission from Telangana government.
While all the employees who returned were taken to a private convention centre and screened for Covid-19, the officials allowed them to attend duties without waiting for the results. After results of three people turned out to be positive, the senior officials directed closure of two blocks of the secretariat.