Ahmedabad / Rajkot / Letter: Omicron Covid-19 variant patients are not different from the Alpha and Delta variants that have been seen by experts in the first and second wave – for the beginning, the majority of patients detected with variants.
Asymptomatic, and there is no need for oxygen support.
The first three patients Gujarat – all of Jamnagar – was expelled from the GG Hospital managed by the government recently.
Experts say that except the first case where a septuagenarian has a fever and dry cough, the other two asymptomatics.
“Their temperature is checked regularly, and they are given paracetamol tablets and multivitamins as part of the Covid protocol.
In addition, they do not need medical intervention,” said a treating doctor.
“According to the protocol, they should remain quarantined for the next seven days and report to us if there is a problem.
They are sent home after they test negative twice after 14 days.” Dr.
Rakesh Joshi, a medical supervisor of a civil hospital in Ahmedabad, said that one- The only hospital patient has – Indigenous Kheda with a history of travel to England – stable.
“In the Delta variant, we have seen high lung involvement.
Here, it is not the problem.
Attention, however, is still needed because Omicron is considered very contagious and patients are stored in a separate environment,” he said.
The only Omicron patient in a letter did not complain of health problems since he tested positive.
There are no symptoms found during the examination by the doctor.
“He is normal with healthy people,” said a health official.
A 42-year-old businessman who has returned from Africa has been tested positive after eight days of return and then the variant is confirmed in the testing of the genome.
City-based experts say that sore throat, body pain, and lightweight fever is one of the symptoms recorded in India and elsewhere.
However, they add that more details are needed to ensure the development of variants.
(With input from Nimesh Khakharia in Rajkot and Yagnesh Mehta in the letter)