The Government of Assam launched a Community Surveillance Program in 30 000 villages across the state to track patients with severe acute respiratory infections (SARI) and Influenza-like Illness (ILI) to detect any community transmission of COVID-19.
The frontline workers such as accredited social health activists (ASHAs), anganwadi workers (AWWs), auxiliary nurse midwives (ANMs), multi-purpose workers (MPWs), field supervisors and Village Headmen are entrusted with the responsibility of conducting house-to-house survey for the identification of all SARI and ILI cases along with Japanese Encephalitis (JE), dengue, malaria and fever cases.