Nagpur: Vidarbha experienced severe cold waves since last week.
Waves have resulted in patients with coughing, cold and fever in almost every household of the region.
While many patients in the urban area see doctors and also go for RT-PCR tests, conditions in Vidarbha rural conditions are very different.
Surge Omicron is more active in rural areas after city corporate cities witness the fall.
But people don’t consult with a doctor.
Toi spoke to the doctor in rural dyes in Vidarbha who said that the rural population was most interested in testing.
“Cough patients, cold and fever are everywhere.
We know it can be an Omicron infection, but people think of it as a kind of cold and cough because of weather changes.
This is the fact that the majority of people recover with household solutions,” said Dr.
Amol Pinge, who works in Yavatmal.
Experts have predicted that there will be severe reporting Covid cases in this wave.
In the recent seminar carried out by the Nagpur branch of the Indian medical association, the former ICMR head Dr.
Raman Gangakhedkar said that most cases of Covid from Indian countryside would be reported not reported.
The same thing is being observed by a doctor who works in the field.
Epidemiologist Anand Thatte said that under reporting would create confusion about the peak in the Vidarbha region.
“Many cases are reported in Mumbai and Pune because of available resources.
Relative, fewer cases reported in the Nagpur.
On the same line, the number can be less on paper in the Vidarbha countryside.
But that does not mean that this area has not reached its peak , “he said, adding, most of the districts in Vidarbha showed a high virus prevalence and this could be considered as the peak instead of waiting for numbers.
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