Laskar Ananya Ray, Garg Suneela, Kumar Raman, Yadav Kartikey, Gopal K Madan
Department Community Medicine, Lady Hardinge Medical College and Former Deputy Director Epid, NCDC, New Delhi, India.
Maulana Azad Medical College, FMS & Advisor ICMRTask Force DBT, New Delhi, India.
J Family Med Prim Care. 2021 Oct;10(10):3540-3543. doi: 10.4103/jfmpc.jfmpc_417_21. Epub 2021 Nov 5.
The sudden upsurge in the newly emerging COVID-19 variants acted as a catalyst for India to scale up the viral Genomic surveillance in order to understand the nature and trends of the newer variants of concern and strengthen public health interventions across the country. The Government of India has proposed the Indian SARS-CoV-2 Genomics Consortium to expand the whole-genome sequencing (WGS) of this virus. However, in a vast country like India introduction and implementation of any new strategies amidst the already existing barriers due to COVID-19 will be a herculean task. This paper talks about how the primary care physicians can play a vital role in successful implementation of the above strategy in addition to the surveillance systems in India.
新出现的新冠病毒变异株的突然激增，促使印度加大了病毒基因组监测力度，以了解新出现的关注变异株的性质和趋势，并加强全国的公共卫生干预措施。印度政府提议成立印度SARS-CoV-2基因组联盟，以扩大对这种病毒的全基因组测序（WGS）。然而，在像印度这样幅员辽阔的国家，在因新冠疫情已经存在的障碍中引入和实施任何新战略都将是一项艰巨的任务。本文探讨了除印度的监测系统外，基层医疗医生如何在成功实施上述战略中发挥至关重要的作用。
