Covid-19: Centre asks states to strictly monitor home isolation cases

The Centre urged the states and Union territories on Wednesday to strictly monitor the home isolation cases of Covid-19 so that these patients do not intermingle in the community, while stressing on awareness regarding home-test kits through the rapid antigen test (RAT) for a timely identification of the disease. The states were advised to conduct surveillance and report district-wise SARI (Severe Acute Respiratory Illness) and ILI (Influenza-like Illness) cases on a daily basis and also to send these for genome sequencing to the mapped INSACOG laboratories.