Mumbai: Even when the disease control centers announced 73% of the new Coronavirus case in the US was caused by the Omicron variant such as against 3% last week, Covid statistics at home were also slowly up and experts believed in the third wave – even if it was less severe The previous – could not be avoided.
The value of the RT or the effective reproductive value of the SARS-COV-2 virus has risen in several states, including Maharashtra.
RT value 1 means that one patient can spread the disease to one other person.
In a tweet, Epidemiology Dr.
Giridhar Babu on Tuesday said the state with an increase in RT value on December 19 compared to December 13 was Bihar, MP, Mirarashtra, Uttarakhand, Tripura, Tamil Nadu, Mizoram, Arunachal Pradesh, West Bengal, Manipur and Nagaland.
Effective RT India is 0.89 on December 19, he added.
In the week ended November 2, the RT value in Maharashtra was 0.7 and continued to increase – 0.82 (November 14), 0.96 (November 22) – before falling – 0.92 (December 29).
In the past two weeks, the value of RT in the state has begun to increase: 1.08 (December 19).
The weekly weekly rising and RT value is, according to the doctor, the indicator of how Covid graphs will change in the following month.
Rahul Pandit, a member of the state government assignment unit in Covid-19, said there was no reason to panic.
“Any increase in R value is the cause of concern and means that public health machines must strengthen supervision and contact contacts,” he said further.
Also read Spread Wings: Mask Up, Avoid Crowdaccording to Dr K Srinath Reddy, President, Indian Public Health Foundation, the emergence of the Omicron SARS-COV-2 variant indeed adds a possible resurrection in Covid cases.
“Even though we cannot stop infection remembering new nature that translists from a new variant that infects Joshi, as well as a member of the task force, said:” The third wave looked far a few months ago, but the emergence of omicron variants spread five times more quickly than Delta has raised the possibility of a cluster and third wave outbreak.
“Internal Medical Specialist Swapneil Parikh said the third wave was unavoidable.” Based on developments in other countries, cases in India will also increase.
What must still be seen is what …
sort of contains the third wave will use hospital infrastructure, “he said.
However, most doctors say immunity due to vaccines, the previous infection will blunt severity of the possibility of omicron waves.