BBMP launches drive to conduct rapid antigen tests in hotspots

The BBMP on Friday launched a rapid antigen test drive in all the 198 wards to provide faster Covid-19 results.

The civic body has also deployed 150 volunteers, who are microbiology graduates, to collect swab samples from Covid-19 hotspots, containment zones and densely populated areas.

Mayor M Goutham Kumar and his deputy C R Ramamohan Raju flagged off the drive.

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“We have also hired 232 Ola cabs to ferry health officials who will use the antigen kits to test people with ILI, SARI cases, the primary contacts of
Covid-19 in containment zones and slums, besides the civic workers,” the mayor said.

BBMP Commissioner B H Anil Kumar said that each vehicle would have three workers who would collect the samples and conduct the tests.