Vadodara: Covid cases in the city have reached the same number as six months ago.
On Mondays and Tuesdays, 17 cases were reported in the city every day equivalent to the number of cases reported on June 26.
Positive cases reported in the city have reached ‘zero’ in September at the end of the second wave.
They began to rise again but remained in one digit until December 8.
The numbers remain low mostly because there are not many contacts from those tested positively found infected.
The situation has changed again because the contact has begun to test positively.
17 new cases on June 26 were detected from 1.749 tests.
If the details provided by Vadodara Municipal Corporation (VMC) must be believed the same number of new cases detected on Monday and Tuesday from 4,730 and 5,674 tests.
While the number of tests now may seem much higher, the source said that only the previous RT-PCR test and the results were calculated by VMC.
Now, even quick earring tests are included in the number of tests performed.
The VMC Medical Officer (Health) Dr.
Devesh Patel said that it was still early to comment if the trend was increasing.
“New cases include a large number of close contact identified during contact contacts.
The situation is not worrying at this time, but we have to wait a few more days before reaching conclusions,” he said.
Patel added that the progress of the disease will also be decided by the Omicron variant behaves.
So far, there are no cases of omicron without a history of travel or without contact close to people infected with a travel history detected.
On Tuesday, there were no cases of new Omicron detected.
The main pause for administration and doctors is that hospitalization, and the number of serious cases because Covid-19, remain low so far.
Against 19 serious cases on June 26, there is only one serious case on Monday and Tuesday.