Bengaluru: With the case of Covid-19 daily continues to float in the range of 600-800 and test the level of participation less than 1%, experts do not see signs of the third infection wave – yet – in Karnataka.
The third is anticipated to reach the country in September or October.
“There are no signs of the third wave; there is no red flag so far,” said Dr.
CN Manjunath, Nodal Officer for Covid-19 testing in the state.
While the first wave of infection receded in October 2020, the second wave began in mid-March 2021 and continued until early June 2021 before tapering.
Now, with new daily cases that fall steeply, the burden on the health care system has subsided.
The number of people who are dying in Covid every day in Karnataka have floated around 20, although the amount is much lower on a few days.
And while an average of more than 1.4 Lakh tests are carried out every day, the country’s daily peposititivity is less than 1%.
However, Dr.
Manjunath warned that even though there were fewer new cases and there were no signs of the third wave, people had to follow the appropriate behavior of Covid.
He also said testing must continue at the current speed, while the state must also focus on increasing vaccination coverage.
The third wave will occur with it, Dr.
V Ravi, Virologist, said that at this time there were no third wave signs, but he insisted that there would be one, even though it would not be a moment.
“The gap between the first and second waves is six months, so we have to wait and watch,” said Dr.
Ravi, who is also a nodal officer and chairman, the committee for the sequencing of the entire Genome (WGS) Covid-19.
“There will be a third wave.
It all depends on the appearance of the new variant and how many suppreading events.” Dr.
Ravi said no one could stop or predict the emergence of a new variant of Coronavirus but prevented the spread of people.
“We are very good forward with vaccination.
The third wave will be far more superficial than the second,” he said.
While some experts suggest that the third wave of the most influences children, Dr.
Jayaprakash Muliyil, epidemiology and chairman, the scientific advisory committee, the National Institute of Epidemiology, in an interview with TOI in August, said the “third wave seems to be stretched by imagination and not allowed correlated with children “.
Dr.
Ravi said the third wave would likely occur in the districts where the coverage of his vaccination was bad.
“In places like Bengaluru, the severity of the third wave will be far less than the first and second waves,” he said.
“Immunization prevents hospitalization and death.
There will be infection, but there will be fewer cases of hospitalization and fatality.” Vax Coverthe Commantei Technice (TAC) is bad, in a recent report to the government, increasing concerns over the coverage of vaccination Bad in districts close to Maharashtra and warn that abundance of neighboring countries can affect Bidar, Vijayapura, Kalaburagi and Raichur.
“Vaccination coverage in these districts must quickly increase through a special outreach community campaign.
In current scenarios, it is possible for the third wave, such as and when it happens, it is likely to be in the district above and hence the acceleration of vaccination coverage is the requirement of hours,” read TAC report.
In accordance with the data of Covid State’s war room on September 26, the lowest vaccination coverage in the Haveri district where only 50.6% of the targeted population had received at least one dose.
Raichur (51.4%), Vijayapura (58.5%) and Bidar (62%) have done a little better.
Karnataka: There is no third covid wave sign so far
