WHO lauds UP’s contact tracing measures for coronavirus control
Saturday, 14 November 2020 UP’s strategy to control Covid-19 during the peak has been lauded by the World Health Organization. Profiling the state’s contact tracing mechanism in a special feature published on Thursday, the WHO noted that ‘early and systematic tracking of high-risk contacts helped Uttar Pradesh step up the fight against Covid-19’.
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