As many as 1,65,000 people have been screened so far for coronavirus in Agra a police official said.
A Satish Ganesh, Inspector General Agra Range said: "Administration is working continuously on increasing the capacity of isolation wards. Wherever we found positive cases, we are conducting a door-to-door survey in those areas. Till date we have screened 1,65,000 people in the city."
He added, "When the first COVID-19 positive case was detected in Agra in first week of February we started robust contact tracing. Then we started collecting samples of the people."
The total confirmed COVID-19 cases reported from Agra climbed to 104 on Sunday, with 89 of them being active cases.
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