Nagpur: Infectious Disease Specialist Dr.
Nitin Shinde told toi that masks, good ventilation, monoclonal antibodies and vaccines must be a strategy for further, and not restrictions or locking again, because we will now return to normal.
Do you believe the Covid-19 case will see a new surge as soon as we reopen schools and religious places? I think there will be no extraordinary Spurt in new cases.
The last two-month experience was enough to show that the virus did not double the way in April-May.
The school is open in rural areas and no waves reported in the case.
Some unofficial meetings and religious events are underway, no waves reported.
Because there are no more multiplication of viruses, we will not see a large surge in cases in school improvements and religious places.
There will be nothing like a super-spreader event now.
What kind of case will we see in the next phase? The cases will mostly be asymptomatic.
They will be identified because of the provisions of randomized testing in religious places and periodic testing at school.
Second, this virus will infect people who are not vaccinated in the coming days.
The authorities must have a mechanism to find out how many new cases are detected from a population that is not vaccinated.
This will give us the right idea of how vaccination works.
Which should be a worrying metric in case we witness a surge? The number of cases should not be a panic criterion again.
Inpatient, oxygen need, ventilator must be a criterion.
Ward Covid is empty.
Oxygen and enough beds are available.
Some cases will continue to appear all the time.
Zero Covid is practically impossible.
So, locking or restrictions should not be our current strategy.
What should be our strategy to stay protected? The power of protecting individuals must be given to individuals.
This power is a mask, good ventilation, monoclonal antibodies and vaccines.
Restrictions are of no use now.
The school must shift their focus from cleaning the surface to a better ventilation.
Physical distance must be followed at school as much as possible.
The important point here is that children less than 7 are almost non-communicable.
So, there’s nothing wrong with reopening elementary school too.
Mask, antibodies, vax to work now, not locking
