UP Govt's Strategic Response To Covid-19 By Stepping Up Contact Tracing Efforts Is 'Exemplary': WHO

The World Health Organisation (WHO) has lauded Chief Minister (CM) yogi Adityanath-led uttar Pradesh (UP) government's strategy to control the COVID-19 pandemic during its peak, reports Times of India.

The global health body profiled the state's contact tracing mechanism in a special feature coverage published on Thursday (12 November). In the feature, WHO has termed the state's "early and systematic tracking of high-risk contacts" as helpful in stepping up the fight against COVID-19.

WHO said that being the most populous state, UP's fight against COVID-19 has been particularly challenging. WHO's India representative Dr Roderico Ofrin said, "The UP Government's strategic response to COVID-19 by stepping up contact tracing efforts is exemplary and can serve as a good example for other states."

The state government had deployed a huge workforce of more than 70,000 front-line health workers to list the contacts of COVID-19 positive patients. Further, to evaluate the quality of contact tracing, the state government had roped in WHO as an independent evaluation agency.