Udupi Deputy Commissioner M. Kurma Rao instructed the health department officials to get prepared to face COVID-19 cases. If COVID-19 cases are reported, officials should undertake more testing in such regions and trace the infected persons besides preventing its spread. COVID-19 task forces should be revived at taluk levels even as oxygen concentrators, oxygen production and units, and other equipment should be kept ready at all health centres, he said.

With colleges resuming classes, students from other States and countries have started arriving in the district. Suitable precaution should be taken to ensure the pandemic does not spread again from them. While health workers and frontline workers should compulsorily get a precautionary dose against COVID-19, they should also ensure all those aged beyond 60 too get the precautionary dose. If necessary, he said, vaccination camps should be organised.  District Health Officer Nagabhushana Udupa informed that 17 positive cases were reported in the district during the last 10 days at which time 2,127 tests were conducted. At present, there are 11 active cases in the district, Dr. Udupa said.