<span style="color: #222222;">After the Prime Minister's call to states to improve contact tracing, the COVID War Room in-Charge in Karnataka, Munish Moudgil has messaged that IT-based system and field staff streamlining is done to improve contact tracing in the state.<br />''<br />''Saying that visits to home quarantine persons in Bengaluru have improved drastically, Mr. Moudgil said that violation of home quarantine is a punishable criminal offence.<br />''<br />''Citing an example, he said that in the South Zone of Bengaluru city 31,000 home quarantined COVID patients are tracked using the mobile app and 9,000 among them were visited by the block level officers.<br />''<br />''Giving further details, he said, average per patient tracing in Bengaluru is 6.29 contacts per person. The data pertaining to tracking are available with the State War Room for the whole of the state.</span><br />