0.2m contacts of Covid patients traced.

LAHORE -- The Central Contact Tracing Unit (CCTU) of the Primary and Secondary Healthcare Department (P and SHD) has traced 0.2 million contacts of coronavirus patients in order to identify new cases in different regions of Punjab.

This was revealed in the video link meeting of CEOs of all districts to review the progress of contact tracing of confirmed cases.

The meeting was chaired by P and SHD Secretary retired Capt Muhammad Usman on Wednesday.

The meeting was briefed that the health department teams traced 50,000 contacts from June 15 to 30.

Similarly, they managed to trace total 19,370 positive cases in June, the meeting was told.

The secretary P and SHD said that CCTU was set up exclusively for contact tracing and it was yielding positive results.

Mr Usman directed that contact tracing of all positive cases must be completed within 24...