Hyderabad: Tough to trace contacts of those with helps

HYDERABAD: Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) officials confirmed that tracing primary and secondary contacts of Covid-19 patients who have drivers and domestic workers has turned out to be a hectic task.
Citing an example, officials said that a resident of Allwyn Colony, who has been tested positive for coronavirus, had employed a driver who lives in a hostel.“The driver tested positive too. We received his report on Friday and are probing his travel history. We will also need to check for symptoms among people living in the hostel,” said a GHMC official.
In another case, the lane where detective inspector of Balapur police station who tested positive lives, has been sealed.
“The main challenge is to identify the people who are not showing any symptoms. With patients who have domestic workers and drivers the process becomes even more difficult as one domestic worker may be employed in multiple households,” said a GHMC official.
In another instance, when a Moosapet doctor tested positive officials said that they could identify contacts easily as he did not have any domestic worker or driver. A source also confirmed that the doctor did not treat any patients as he was working as a professor in medical college. “He was not in touch with people since colleges have been shut,” said the source.