Chennai: City on Thursday reported the highest of all time from 8,218 new Covid-19 cases, almost a quarter of the total sample tested.
But doctors, paramedics and public health administrators are not worried because they are not like the peak in May 2021, there are no long queues outside the hospital or lack of oxygen and drugs saving lives.
Chennai, who topped the situation in terms of new cases, also reported the sharpest increase in new cases.
The city reported 7,372 cases on Wednesday.
During the second wave peak in 2021, it was reported to be a maximum of 7,466 new cases on May 11 and 7,564 cases on May 12.
This spike also encourages active cases.
On Thursday, there were 46,515 patients who underwent treatment for virus infections and of which were 2,991 patients or around 6% in hospitals, including 256 in the intensive care unit.
“The patient in almost 85% of cases in the cluster has a s-gen dropout, a proxy indicator for Omicron.
Most have mild infections.
This disease affects the bronchus but does not attack the lungs,” said Minister of Health MA Subramanian.
This situation was very different last year.
On May 12, 2021, there were fewer active cases (40,613), but 12,624 people in hospitals, including 1,935 in intensive care units.
Most patients in the ICU are not vaccinated, requiring expensive drugs and oxygen or high flow ventilators.
This time, with more people vaccinated, his death was low.
On May 11 and May 12 last year, the city reported 92 and 89 deaths.
On Thursday, Greater Chennai Corporation recorded eight Covid-19 deaths.
But experts warn that the number may be low in terms of percentage, but with a quick increase in cases, acceptance in terms of absolute numbers will rise.
“It was enough to flood the health care system, tiring doctors and nurses, and resulted in complications,” said Head of Scientist Dr.
Soumya Swaminathan, which is in the TN expert panel, for example, the percentage of active patients in the hospital has dropped from 25% to 6% in a week .
But in absolute quantities, there were 3,000 patients in hospitals compared to the previous 2,000.
ICU occupancy has increased from 6% to 13%.
“If the case continues to increase, the occupancy rate will also increase and it will be a pressure on the health system,” said Health Secretary J Radhakrishnan.
Many laboratories in the city have extended the time of completion for up to 48 hours.
The city conducted nearly 35,000 daily tests and daily ponytites floating between 20% to 25%.
“This is why we are trying to maintain low infections.
Even though we have sidewalks and restrictions, we are not under the total kuncian.
People must wear masks and maintain social distance,” said Radhakrishnan.