The Department of Health and Family Welfare will once again begin strategic testing of asymptomatic individuals in community settings, contacts of confirmed cases, patients who stand discharged as per home isolation guidelines and individuals undertaking interstate travel. “We will focus on areas where people live closer to each other. One example is prisons,” said Principal Secretary, Health, Manisha Saxena.
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