Pune: Top health experts and scientists feel India are in a much better position to overcome omicron and prevent rapid spread than Delta.
LS Shashidhara, Professor, Institute of Indian Science Education and Research (Iiser), Pune, on Wednesday told Tii, “The Home-Grown Delta variant has emerged in early October 2020 and spreads in the country.
But the spread was not reported until February.
means that it already has more than three months to spread without increasing alarms until mid-February 2021.
Omicron has been detected very early in India and patients are isolated as soon as they test the positive variant.
“Shashidhara said the way forward was to detect a variant at the same time as Diagnostics – both delta or omicron.
“It also helps detect real-time if the third variant appears.” Read Alsocovid-19: Three weeks since the first infection, no omicron cluster in Karnatait on November 22 that a doctor was tested positive for Covid-19 and then found infected by the Omicron variant.
It was the first local case without a travel history.
Omicron variant in the doctor’s swab sample was confirmed on December 2 through a sequencing genome.
Cowor scientist Dr.
Raman Gangakhedkar, former head of epidemiology and distribution of infectious diseases from the Indian Medical Research Council (ICMR), “When Delta was initially reported, the coverage of vaccination had just begun, with a piece of population that was susceptible to a virus.
The big difference now is that more than 55% of Indian adult populations that qualified in India were fully vaccinated against Covid with no when delta was first detected in India in October 2020.
“Gangakhedkar said India was in a more profitable position now than when Delta was detected because the country had begun to prepare Contains a variant, regardless of little available information about his behavior: such as severity and ability to avoid vaccine induced antibodies.
Read Alsono Death due to lack of oxygen during Covid-19 Second Wave: UP GovernmentLucknow: The Government of Uttar Pradesh on Thursday told the Legislative Council that there was no death because the lack of oxygen was reported in the state of Covid-19, claims were rejected by the opposition.
The government said the death certificate did not mention ‘death due to the lack of Samiran Panda, the head of the ICMR epidemiology and the division of infectious diseases, told TII, “our modeling study, named Krom, which was conducted in mid-June this year was explored by the scenario.
According to him, the emergence of variants, more efficient transmission or have the ability to escape immune or both, can push the third wave.
“Read Alsocovid-19: Eye Omicron, the countries are told to be ready with O2, connection equipment about the possibility of a surge in the Covid-19 case because of the new Omicron variant, the center on the center On Wednesday review the supply status of oxygen, equipment, ventilators, and concentrators, among others, the state and UTS, urge them to monitor their availability every day to ensure, “the Omicron story is taking place exactly as we think.
But at the same time, we Also projects that the third intensity.
waves at the Kabupat level En and the country will be far less than what the state can experience during the second wave.
If the ongoing Covid vaccination program increases, it will be able to level the symptomatic infection curve.
“Dr.
Panda said the intensity of the other waves may not be as bad as the second because the immunity was achieved during the previous waves.
Senior epidemiologist Dr.
Amitav Banerjee told TII,” the crusade from a natural infection, previously in a piece of population would likely provide comprehensive immunity to omicron.
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