new delhi the looming threat from a new covid19 strain found an echo in delhi high court on wednesday as the judges asked the aap government to tighten testing and follow up with the travellerskeeping in mind the recent decision of the centre of suspending flights from uk till december 31 and the fact that a large number of people had flown in before suspension of the flights from uk delhi government shall ensure prompt and adequate testing and follow up with those found positive with all seriousness to avoid another spate of infection in the city a bench of justices hima kohli and subramonium prasad notedthe directions were issued while hearing a pil where the court was monitoring delhis fight against the pandemicin other key directions it also asked delhi government to frame standard operating procedures sops to deal with postcovid complications in recovered patients who continued to face serious health issues and were finding it difficult to resume normal lifethe expert committee already constituted by delhi government shall examine the aforesaid aspect and come up with an sop which will be given wide publicity needful shall be done within two weeks a copy of the sop shall be filed along with the next status report the court directed the government through standing counsel satyakamduring the hearing the bench took note of the districtwise covid data submitted by delhi government where it assured the court that it was enhancing contact tracings and creating more containment zones where the positivity rate was more it also told the court that at a meeting on december 21 by delhi disaster management authority ddma it was decided that the representative testing shall be followed and focus would be more on pockets where the positivity rate was morethe court observed that the positivity rate in delhi between december 11 and 20 had dipped from 264 to 129 and cautioned the government to ensure while following the representing testing it should ensure testing through rtpcr remained higher than rataccording to the status report filed by delhi government as of december 19 the positivity rate was below 2 in all the districts except northwest where it was 212the court on december 3 had directed delhi government to focus on testing and tracing to deal with the number of covid cases in the capital as the fear factor regarding the virus was huge in the minds of the people