Centre's guidelines for the states: Regularly review and ensure that samples of positive cases of international travellers and their contacts as well as from emerging hot spots are promptly submitted to INSACOG labs for genome sequencing according to protocol, Bhushan advised the states.
Further to contain spread, it is imperative that states and UTs follow a mission mode and focused approach of quickly tracking primary and secondary contacts of positive cases and facilitate testing for them, he said.
It is critical to track all contacts of such cases, quarantine them without delay and test them according to guidelines, Bhushan said.