PUNE: The Pune and Pimpri Chinchwad civic bodies have sped up the contact tracing process across the zonal levels of the Omicron-affected patients.
According to the PMC officials, nearly 40 teams are operating in 15 ward offices. “People are cooperating. We can see a lot of awareness among the people about the symptoms and other factors related to Covid. They are helping by sharing details about the high risk and low risk contacts,” said Gopal Ujwankar, a medical officer from the Kasba Vishrambaugwada ward office.
PMC officials said that around 450 travellers had returned to the civic limits and they had been conducting thorough contact tracing to spot those people.
Laxman Gophane, PCMC’s assistant health medical officer, “On the Omicron front, the list of citizens returning from foreign countries to the civic limits is being updated daily. We have not slowed down the contact tracing and nor have the number of teams been reduced for the same.” He said, over 200 citizens have returned to the PCMC limits from abroad and the civic body was tracing their contacts.
