Kolkata: Doctors see a steady increase in the number of patients treated in the ICU with covid pneumonia for several days.
While delta-symptoms like they have seen in it, some hospitals have asked the health department to carry out random sequencing of their sample genomes to confirm whether their variant of the delta, omicron or unfinished strains.
“In the last four to five days, I have come in an increase in the number of patients who come poorly covid.
At present, four of them, including a patient in his 40s, who ventilated and three on high oxygen needs.
We know about 80% of cases now Omicron and the rest are Delta, but we need to keep an eye out for a new variant.
That is why we have sent requests for sequencing genomes on several samples, “said the king of King Dzar from CMRI.
The doctor showed most of the patients in the ICU with comorbidity and incidental covid, but the number of patients with covid pneumonia also increased.
“Not all landing in the ICU is with strokes or heart patients with incidental covid.
Some come with covid pneumonia, need a large amount of oxygen and the number they have started climbing, “said Sushmita Roy Chowdhury, lung at Fortis Hospital.
Even if the patient has a delta-symptom like, what the worries of doctors are increased amounts amid omicron domination.
“We really don’t know whether it’s Delta or Omicron, which causes pneumonia at the next stage.
Therefore, we have also asked for all the sequencing genomes to samples some of these patients, “said Roy Chowdhury.
Specially, the CEO Hospital Sudipta Mitra also said they got a case of positive patients coming with decreased oxygen saturation and persistent high-grade fever that looked like a delta symptom.
At present, the entire genome sequencing is done only in positive samples from patients with international travel history.
The decision to order all samples from the public under 30 CT values ​​from Kolkata were drawn within a week in December-end.
But the state is likely to start sending random samples from covid patients with serious illness.
“Is that Delta or Omicron, treatment will remain the same area.
We do not have to lose every variant to appear and sequencing therefore the genome of random samples will help with public health policy, “said a critical care specialist Saswati Sinha from Amri Dhakuria.