Udupi Deputy Commissioner M. Kurma Rao has ordered a Fever Survey in the district to identify COVID-19 positive patients and ensure their isolation and treatment for the effective containment of the spread of the pandemic. The DC has directed Health Department officials to get ASHAs and anganwadi volunteers visit every household in the district and collect information about those having fever. They should ensure that those having fever undergo COVID-19 test so as to facilitate isolation of people having COVID-19 symptoms and also effective containment of the spread of the disease. Asking the department officials to enhance COVID-19 tests, the DC  ordered compulsory testing of primary and secondary contacts of COVID-19 positive patients, people with fever symptoms as well as those with travel history. Officials should ensure that COVID-19 positive patients in home isolation and their primary contacts do not roam outside the containment zones. He also told them to collect all information with regard to COVID-19 positive patients in the jurisdictional primary health care centre.