From the first week of this month, Kerala was on a mission to track the spread of the coronavirus. A dedicated group of health workers and administrators have played a pivotal role in restricting the community spread of the virus. Tracking the suspects Initially, the people who came in contact with the first three positive cases in India were traced. It was easy to trace the contacts of the students from Wuhan. After a few days, they found that the three Italy-returned people were unwilling to co-operate with the health workers.
Tracing contacts was now becoming challenging as cases having a travel history to Italy were increasing. The travellers from Italy were avoiding screenings, visiting places naively, thus aiding the spread of the virus. Keeping this situation in mind, the doctors decided to note down complete case histories of suspected patients. This included tracing every…
