Chennai: Relief for the residents of Chennai, the active Covid-19 case has dropped 16,000 in the last week.
Of the 58,311 cases on January 22, active cases fell to 42,017 on January 28.
During this period, the positive level has also dropped from 25% to 20%.
This means, the fewer people test positive now for Covid-19, indicating that the spread reduced.
While all zones almost uniform showed a decrease in cases, several zones such as only Adyar contributed 10% of the total active city cases, with 4518 positive cases.
Four Zones I Kota – Anna Nagar, Teynampet, Kodambakkam and Perungudi – still have more than 3000 active cases each.
Dr.
Subramanian Swinathan said the pattern of increases and the same fall was observed globally and not different here.
“If the trend continues, on February 15, we may see significantly fewer overall cases,” he said.
In Chennai, the ICU residential curve remained flat with around 300 to 350 beds being occupied since January 18.
“Inpatient and the trend of death can show uptick for a few more days before falling,” added Dr.
Swaminathan.
While the detention zone in the city also declined from 490 to 420 during the past week, experts said that focusing on adolescent vaccinations and prudential doses was the way forward.
“Routine detention measures will no longer be useful.
Vaccination of fast tracking from those under the age of 15 is needed,” said Dr.
Swaminathan.
The future containing viruses will only go through vaccination.
“Relaxation can be accelerated because the omicron case is tapered.
Pandemic Covid-19 will reach the endemic stage if we continue to vaccinate people,” said Dr.
Jacob John’s virus.
“I don’t see the new Delta variant coming again soon.
The scope of the booster dose must be traced quickly for a qualified population,” he added.
Corporate commissioner Gagandeep Singh Bedi said even though the cases declined, the Civic body did not reduce his safeguards.
“We will continue to involve volunteers Covid-19 to 15 February.
The filtering center will also continue until the case reduces further,” he told toi.
Former Director of Public Health Dr K Kollandaswamy said field volunteers could be maintained for vector control diseases as well.
“The city, apart from Covid-19, has endemic infections such as dengue and malaria, which requires additional artificial.
Corporations have to exchange field staff to control other disease steps,” he added.