Yogi Adityanath government proactive on prevention of Zika virus

Under the Yogi Adityanath government, health workers ensure door-to-door checking for Zika virus

November 17, 2021

Yogi: Zika virus positivity rate falling in state

Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has instructed his officials for regular monitoring of every single patient infected with the Zika virus. At the same time, the CM asked the officials to step up ‘trace, test, and treat’ to control the Zika and dengue infections.

Yogi said that the Zika virus positivity rate was falling in the state and is under control.

CM Yogi Adityanath inspected the Zika Virus Integrated Command Centre in Kanpur last week.

Yogi’s medical team is identifying symptomatic people and providing them with medical kits. The district administration, health department, and municipal authorities have been strategically working to increase surveillance, sanitization, and investigation in the affected areas.

Health workers have been paying door-to-door visits to identify patients with viral fever, vector-borne diseases, and other symptoms.

Scaling up the preventive measures to eliminate the spread of the Zika virus, the Uttar Pradesh government has intensified comprehensive surveillance and has initiated doorstep surveys throughout the state to bring down transmission levels.

The health workers are carrying out the extensive exercise of mass-scale sanitization, state-wide surveillance drives, spraying of anti-larva chemicals, fogging, and cleanliness drives.

The authorities are also working to create awareness on preventative measures to curb Zika with the help of posters.

Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has also made it compulsory for private hospitals to provide treatment to patients infected with the Zika virus and the cases of fever are being monitored via the integrated command center to ensure there is no panic for Zika and dengue.

It is noteworthy that since the confirmation of the state’s first case of Zika virus on October 22, the Uttar Pradesh government is carrying out strict testing of samples at a large scale to remove the risk of any further spread at King George’s Medical University (KGMU) in Lucknow.

As a result of this, the Zika test positivity rate in places like Kanpur and Kannauj is recording a consistent and steady decline.

Over 73,000 surveillance committees and the ASHA workers have also been visiting households for screening, tracing patients showing viral symptoms, fever and influenza-like illness (ILI).

Meanwhile, Coronavirus cases have fallen sharply in the state since the devastating months at the start of the year. The Active Caseload has been reduced to 99 pushing the Recovery Rate up to a remarkable 98.8 percent.

The fresh and active COVID-19 cases in as many as 45 districts of the state have declined to zero.

The most populous state has conducted over 1,21,074 tests in the span of the last 24 hours out of which merely nine samples tested positive. As many as eight patients also recovered at the same time. Till now, over 16,87,280 Coronavirus patients have recovered from the disease.

Yogi also reiterated the need for regular and thorough cleanliness, sanitizations, and fogging drives to check the mosquito-borne diseases. Both Zika and dengue, like malaria, are vector-borne diseases transmitted by mosquitoes.

[With Inputs from IANS]

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