Guwahati: Following a burst in the Covid-19 case, seven of them tested the Omicron variant on Thursday, Assam has decided to treat every new case from now as an Omicron variant without waiting for the results of confirmation from the sequencing of the genome, which takes at least five days to be resolved .
It is being done to immediately capture transmission, which is very fast if there is this variant.
The Head of Minister Himanta Buswa Sarma said the government had changed the protocol to adjust to the new situation, which was different from the first two waves.
“We want to prepare themselves to face this third wave,” he said.
Friday, the country recorded 1167 cases, up 323 cases from Thursday.
Likewise, the level of peposititivity test on Friday also increased by almost 1% in the last 24 hours to 3.32%.
The total positive case of the country in the third wave in one week from January 1 reached 3,734 on Friday.
“The number of Covid-19 cases increasingly lodged almost in two days since January 1.
From this increase, we can judge that enough Omicron.
The case has entered Assam.
But while Covid-19 confirmation test takes a short time, to detect omicron every case like that Need to be sent to the genome sequencing and this process takes four to five days.
When we get the results of the genome sequencing, the patient will have recovered but he has transmitted the virus variant at the time, “Sarma said.
He added, “So, we have decided that in Assam, every new case will occur allegedly as an Omicron As an Omicron case.
“Sarma said according to the assessment of the State Health Department, from January 20 to 31, the third wave will exceed the highest number of 6,536 cases seen in the second wave.
“Our assessment is that this time the peak will be higher and can be between 10,000 and 12,000, or even more.
Omicron is very light and easily transmitted.
So, the number of Covid cases will be much higher than what we have seen in two previous waves, “He added.
With seven new Omicron cases, Covid-19 new variant calculations have risen to nine in the state.
The variant was first reported on Wednesday in a man’s sample, who had returned from Saudi Arabia.
He asked everyone related to him to take the necessary actions.