As new Covid-19 positive cases are reported from Ganjam district, the Government deputed two senior officials for surveillance in the district.
A team of officials comprising Family Welfare Director Bijay Kumar Panigrahi and Bhubaneswar RMRC Scientist Jaysingh Khatri has been assigned for Ganjam to supervise the surveillance and containment measures, said a notification issued by Health & Family Welfare Department.
Besides, the MKCG Medical College Hospital would form a five-member RRT consisting of a professor from pulmonary medicine or medicine department, a professor or associate professor of anesthesiology, a professor or associate professor of microbiology department and two faculty members of community medicine department to strengthen the surveillance, contact tracing and testing as well as the medical preparedness.
The total of Covid-19 positive cases in Ganjam has increased to four so far after a large number of migrant workers reached the district from Surat.