Disease Surveillance Current Affairs, GK & News
Centre issues guidelines to set up health infra in rural areas
The Government of India recently issued guidelines to contain COVID-19 in rural areas. What are the guidelines? COVID-19 Care Centre for asymptomatic cases should be established in peri urban and rural areas. These centres should have a minimum of thirty beds. This should be set up mainly in areas where home isolation is not possible. ..
Month: Current Affairs - May, 2021
Category: Economy & Banking Current Affairs
Topics: ASHA • Disease Surveillance • Health • Health and Wellness Centres • Primary Healthcare • Rapid Antigen Test • rural health
Governments use surveillance to fight COVID-19
Several governments across the world have resorted to various surveillance technologies to monitor the COVID-19 patients in their countries. Israel’s Hamagen App Israel has launched the Hamagen app and it has been downloaded by about 1.5 million Israelis in a week. The Hamagen app (from Hebrew word meaning ‘the shield’) was developed using open source ..
Category: International Current Affairs • Science & Technology Current Affairs
Topics: COVID-19 • Disease Surveillance • Mobile app
Himachal Pradesh to launch an Active Case Finding Campaign for COVID-19 patients
The government of Himachal Pradesh is to launch an Active Case Finding Campaign to look for people affected by COVID-19. About the Campaign Himachal Pradesh is to launch the ACF campaign to step up the efforts to contain the COVID-19 outbreak. The health workers will collect health information of every individual and share it with ..
Category: India Nation & States Current Affairs • States Current Affairs
Topics: ASHA workers • COVID-19 • Disease Surveillance • Himachal Pradesh