Kolkata: Covid Fatality Rate (CFR) in Bengal During the last two weeks between December 25 and January 7 – The period that saw Omicron triggered a wave of transmission sweeping throughout the country including the country – who believed, the point in the fact that even though the new variant had affected thousands Everyday, it is still far more strange than its predecessors.
The overall CFR continued around 1.1%.
In phase 14 today, Kolkata reported 37,961 fresh covid cases, and Bengal reported 82,427 Covid cases.
Covid’s death in Kolkata in this period was 48, in Bengal 157.
Among the 157 deaths in this Bengal, at least 41 people did not have a co-morbidity diagnosed, showing more than the two Covid deaths in this period have the underlying co-morbidity .
Another fact that arises is that the proportion of greater deaths in the 14th period today is in the 75-plus age group.
CM Mamata Banerjee has indicated that the state will investigate this death to find out the reason.
The number of hospital admission also shows that a much lower person requires hospitalization in this phase.
In a period of 14 today, hospitalization increased by 1,797 but house isolation fell 42.138.
While the Delta variant can spread from one to around 3-4 people, the potential infectivity of Omicron is around 2.5 times this, said the Director of the King Dhar CMRI Pulmonology Hospital.
“That means the infected person Omicron can infect at least around 9 people.
So, we have had a blast case that can continue at least for two more weeks.
But it is much strange that is proven by a low mortality rate.
In any pandemic, this is a pattern General.
The virus is increasingly contagious but loses stings with each wave, “Dhar said.
Spikes in cases are frightening because it has occurred in geometric development every day during the current wave, said Belle Vue Clinic Internal Medicine Consultant Rahul Jain.
“Suddenly beaten, and the numbers have raced.
But inpatient care is proportionally low with the number of affected people which means this disease is less severe, which is reflected in a low mortality rate.
While this shows a weaker virus, vaccination too, has acted as a shield, “Jain said.
Dhar said at the peak of the second wave, the mortality rate was around 8% in this country.
“It can be less than 3% this time,” he said.
The dominant variant at this time, Omicron, mainly influenced the street roads and lung love much lower, said the CEO of Woodlands Hospital Rupali Basu.
“That’s why oxygen requirements are almost zero.
Therefore, minimal case fatality.”