Pune: National health experts feel that although Covid-19 cases can peak in India immediately, the waves are currently driven by the omicron variant of the virus can be at all.
“Global data and our own experience over the past five weeks revealed that infections caused by Omicron are mostly asymptomatic or mild.
Some hospitals that are severely ill also have other co-morbidity or more than 60 years old.
Overall intimate care level for The person affected by Omicron is 1-2%, which is far less than the level of people who need hospital care during Covid waves caused by Delta, “Dr.
NK Arora, Chair of the Covid-19 Working Group of the National Technical Advisory Group on Immunization to Ti on Saturday.
“More than 80% of people in this country have been infected naturally by viruses.
More than 91% of adults have received at least one dose of anti-covid vaccine, while more than 66% of people over 18 years have received a vaccine dose.
Remember all This, the overall impact of the surge of Covid cases today tends to be far less.
No need to panic.
But we must remain vigilant and follow the Covid protocol, “he said.
With a country that reported a new Covid infection 1.41 lakh in the last 24 hours and the active case hovered around 4.8 lakh, the expert said the big surge in this case was the third wave indication.
“But the same as an increase in cases, falling can also be expected in the regions reported by the cases driven by Omicron,” Dr Arora said.
More than 50% of fresh omicron cases are reported from the big cities of India.
Data revealed that Maharashtra led the Covid case daily calculation, followed by West Bengal, Delhi, Karnataka, Rajasthan, Kerala and Gujarat.
Dr.
Arora said most cases were asymptomatic or slightly symptomatic, as observed in South Africa.
He, however, emphasized that people have not been vaccinated must get anti-covid doses at the beginning and strictly follow the appropriate behavior of Covid.
The Indian Medical Research Council (ICMR) of the Additional Director General Dr.
Samiran Panda told TI that the active Covid curve would begin to flatten within three months in the regions recently registered a surge surge.
“For this, people must obey Beahviour and protocols that fit Covid, and act appropriately.
The projections that we have produced so far through modeling exercises show that if omicron is the dominant variant of the virus in an area, a surge in infection will increase sharply and Fall in three months, “he said.
“The main metropolitan area in cultivation has Omicron as the main variant of Covid.
But in areas such as the Northeast, it is more than a Delta variant which causes pressure on the health system.
This country does not have a homogeneous representation of epidemics and countries must prepare specific actions After critically analyzing each data, “said Dr.
Panda.
Dr.
Lalit Kant, other public health experts and epidemiology of infectious diseases and senior advisors at Ashoka University, told TII, “two famous things about the Omicron variant.
It is more contagious and transmitted from the Delta variant.
Previous infections provide poor protection in cases Omicron.
The number of severe Omicron cases that requires hospitalization is about a quarter of the Delta variant infection.
“He said,” The focus now must be on patient care and stress must be in Tele consulting centers.
Experience from other countries shows that it takes around 4- 6 weeks for omicron cases to reach the top, and then there is a sharp fall.
Thus, if we witness the culmination of the Omicron case in early February, a surge might end in mid-March.
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