COLATE: Trying to fight the increase in Covid cases, warning experts

Kolkata: Experts have requested health care facilities to be ready for an increase in the number of Covid revenues towards the end of October.
With a surge in a pre-puja crowd, swelling every day as a festival approach, the burst in the number of cases of Covid is close at the end of this month in Kolkata, experts are feared.
The highlands of numbers and hospitalization since the beginning of August resulting from strict compliance with the Covid protocol since the second wave.
This compliance has begun to decrease, and the consequences of it can be proven in two weeks, experts warn.
With a crowd of festivals set to peak during Puja this week, transmissions too, can be fast, although the number of affected people can be smaller than in the second wave, with mild infections that suffer most, they predict.
However, the doctor’s part warns that if the number of people affected swells, there may be a proportional increase in the number of those who suffer from severe illness, a substantial amount despite vaccination.
“We have let our slaughter down,” said Raja Dhar, Director of Pulmonology, CMRI Hospital.
“But the virus is still active and vaccinated cannot prevent transmission.
It can withstand disease and there will still be a handful, who can have severe infections despite inoculation.
So, one month will be very important.” He added that there were some covid patients under his care Now, including some who suffer from severe illness despite multiple vaccination.
“One of them is ventilated, the others have just come out of it but are still serious.
So, the section will still have severe illness despite vaccination, which underlines the importance of social distance, which is now almost eliminated,” Dhar added.
‘It is necessary to protect children, which have not been vaccinated with density can cause rapid transmission, which is dangerous at this point when the third wave is captured, said the Education & Research Institute of Postgraduate Medical (IPGMER) Diplipendra Sarkar.
“Although more than 95% of the Kolkata population is being inoculated, the level of transmission in the city remains more than 1, which means that one can still transmit the disease to another.
In a crowded scenario, this can lead to bursts in the number,” said Sarkar.
However, he felt that most cases would now be mild.
“On the other hand, there will be a crowd exchange between Kolkata and its edges, which are more dangerous and can cause transmission.
Above all, we need to protect our children, who remain not vaccinated and vulnerable,” said Sarkar.
Sauren Panja, intensivist, RN Tagore International Institute of Cardiac Sciences, shows that Kolkata might be heading for last year’s repetition when, too, the amount affected by Covid has peaked in the last week of October.
“The highlands have caused satisfaction, which is proven in the crowds we now see around us.
I expect a surge between the middle and late October, but may not be great.
Maybe, we will see a 30% increase in the case, which will take the number Daily affected by Bengal passes 1,000 marks, “Panja said.
The daily amount affected by Bengal now floated around the 700+ sign, according to the number issued by the government.
A slow and invisible surge may have started, said Sarkar.
“There have been spurts in the case of coughing and cold, many of them can actually be covid.
But they become light due to vaccination, so hospitalization is still rare.
However, many are detected with Covid while looking for recognition for non-covid care,” said Sarkar.
Hospital Leeran has seen a surge in reception covid.
The number of patients is now 31, which is the highest since the second wave.
We have never had more than 28 since June, “said CEO Nearless Sudipta Mitra.
He added that hospitals were preparing to add Covid wards.
RN Tagore International Institute of Cardiac Sciences (RTIICS) and Amri also decided to increase the covid bed remembering Puja.
“We have 47 Covid beds, which 32 are occupied, with 16 critical care patients.
If we see a stable increase in case, we will add more beds because we have ready infrastructure.
However, for non-Covid wards, we will return to the pre-pandemic list for doctors and nurses, “said R Venkatesh, head of zonal, RTIICS.
At Amri Hospital, the number of covid beds, which is now 50 in three units, will go up to 75-80.
“We will also have more doctors and nurses ready if there is a spurt suddenly in reception during pujas,” said CEO of Rupak Barua.