Patna: The people in the age group of 20 to 39 years are the most affected in the third wave of Covid pandemic, the principal of additional school health department Pratyaya Amrit told Mediodaysons here on Tuesday.
About 51.9% of people infected with Coronavirus between January 1 and January 10 are in the age group of 20-39 years, according to the Ministry of Health data.
About 1.9% of infected people were in the age group of 0-9 years, 10% were 10-19, 15.2% in 40-49 and 12.5% in the age group 50-59.
Among affected, 8.6% were senior citizens.
Overall 29,149 people have tested positive Covid in the state in the last 10 days.
From them, 66.9% were men and 33.1% of women.
About 99% infected with Covid-19 in the state was under house isolation while inpatient levels in the third wave of pandemics reached 0.9% on Tuesday.
Amrit said the recovery rate was relatively better because people recovered from infection in 5-7 days under house isolation.
“Previously, we used to focus on contacts and testing, but this time is the spread of the community.
We will restart the Covid-19 Hit (home isolation) application to ensure regular monitoring and tracking patients covid-19 under house isolation throughout the country Section.
This will function from January 12, “he said.
The cellular application was launched in May last year by CM Nitish Kumar, where health workers track around 1.5 lakh patients in house isolation.
ANMS is used to monitor the spo2 and the temperature of the patient covid before uploading data to the health dashboard.
According to the Ministry of Health’s source, the Covid-19 hit application has been upgraded.
Overall 30 on-call medical teams have formed on Patna.
Twenty-three teams will work in rural areas and seven in urban areas.
The medical facilities needed will be given to people in home isolation by the mobile medical team, said Amrit.
“Let’s not underestimate the omicron covid variant because it is too early to say what forms are needed.
People must remain vigilant and follow the appropriate behavior of Covid,” said Amrit.
The Ministry of Health on Tuesday provides 576 ambulances to various blocks under Mukhyamantri Gram Parifahan Yojana for two months.
Special Secretary of the Ministry of Health Sanjay Kumar Singh said the 1 dose of Crore of Covid-19 vaccines is currently available in the state.
Bihar: ‘People in the 20-39 age group are most affected by Covid’
