Govt Plans Telephonic COVID-19 Survey, Citizens To Get Call From ‘1921’

For the survey, citizens will receive a phone call from ‘1921’ on their mobile phones and will be asked for feedback on coronavirus.

New Delhi| The Centre on Tuesday declared that it will conduct a telephonic survey to gather feedback on COVID-19. Citizens will receive a phone call from ‘1921’ on their mobile phones.

Mobile phones are believed held by over 90% of the country’s households.

The survey to check the prevalence of novel coronavirus symptoms amid the nation’s soaring counts and fears that many infected persons remain undetected.

The telephone survey will be conducted by National Informatics Network, a government agency. The agency will call up citizens across the nation for feedback on the “prevalence and distribution” of COVID-19 symptoms, the health ministry said.

Govt. of India is going to conduct a survey to gather citizen feedback on prevalence & distribution of #COVID19 symptoms

✅Citizens will get calls on their mobile phones
✅Call will be from 1️⃣9️⃣2️⃣1️⃣
✅Survey by @NICMeity
Beware of calls from other numbers
✅Pls participate! pic.twitter.com/4gPNiZKlg7

— PIB in Maharashtra (@PIBMumbai) April 21, 2020

A Ministry of Health survey said: “People are informed that the survey through 1921 is a genuine survey and they are requested to participate in a good measure when a call comes from 1921 to enable proper feedback of the prevalence and distribution of COVID symptoms.”

A health research official said that around 69 per cent of cases detected in the country during contact tracing did not have symptoms when tested positive., revealing the difficulty of finding a virus that is deadly to some but relatively benign to most infected persons.

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50 new fatalities and 1383 new COVID-19 cases recorded across the country in the last 24 hours. As per the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare’s updated figures on Wednesday morning, the total number of positive cases in India stands at 19,984 nearing 20,000-mark.

The total number of cases include 3870 cured/discharged/migrated cases and 640 casualties, health ministry data showed.

The total number of cases also includes 77 foreign nationals.

Maharashtra alone added another 552 novel Coronavirus patients on Tuesday.

Gujarat at 2,178, now has the most number of COVID-19 cases in India after Maharashtra, 5,218.

Following Maharashtra and Gujarat, the worst affected states are Delhi (2,156), Tamil Nadu (1,596), Rajasthan (1,659), Madhya Pradesh (1,552), Uttar Pradesh (1294) and Telangana (928).