The municipality of Vadodara in Gujarat, India has started preparations to deal with the potential outbreak of Covid19, a subvariant of the pandemic virus. Health officials in the civic body have been asked to ensure that Covid19 tests are done in case of all acute respiratory illness cases and to send any positive cases for genome sequencing. They have also been asked to keep a close tab on the positive cases and do extensive contact tracing. The two government hospitals in the city already have isolation wards and beds ready to handle any new cases. The hospital at Gotri also has 10 beds ready and 10 others on standby. The dome structure prepared for Covid19 is still functional and hospital officials said that its preparedness can be increased to the level of the highest number of admissions at the peak of the pandemic.
