pune the state public health department officials on tuesday stressed on ramping up the covid19 testing in the areas reporting deltaplus casesstate surveillance expert dr pradeep awate said testing would have to be improved in amravati bhandara yavatmal and gadchiroli districts from where deltaplus cases emergedof the 27 new deltaplus cases six each were reported from amravati and gadchiroli five from nagpur four from ahmednagar two from nashik and one from bhandara most of these districts have been testing between 1000 and 4000 samples in a week there is a need to ramp up testing there after the detection of deltaplus variant cases said a public health officialawate said the usual testing contact tracing and early treatment along with vaccination were the key to address the deltaplus variant cases the genomic surveillance is helping us gather the necessary epidemiological details and prevent the spread of the deltaplus variant besides contact tracing and early testing and treatment are keeping the cases under control he told toi adding that there was no active deltaplus variant case in the state at present