Mumbai: Experts say it will take six to eight more weeks for “omicron waves”, if at all, become clear.
While the first Omicron case Maharashtra has been detected in the Mumbai Metropolitan area, Secretary of the Head of the State (Health) of Dr.
Pradeep Vyas said, “We will focus on quickly completing the vaccination process and ensuring that people follow the right behavior, especially wearing facial masks.
‘ ‘Dr.
Shashank Joshi, a member of the Covid task force of the state government, “there are too many unknown omicron variants today.
We should not panic, but maintain awareness.
We must learn whether Omicron in the next few weeks moved the Delta variant (which caused the second wave in India) as the dominant variant circulating.
“Read Alsocovid-19: 2 More detection in Maharashtra, Gujarat took the calculation of omicron India to 4maharashtra and Gujarat reported the case of each omicron variant of Covid-19 on Saturday, a 33-year-old man from Mumbai’s Dombivli who had traveled to South Africa Then and 72-year-old Zimbabwean residents were 72-year-old visiting their origin Omicron case is related to the trip.
We must study case clusters in countries other than South Africa which might develop after the case related to the first trip.
This will help us prepare, “added Dr.
Joshi.
Another unit member, Dr.
Rahul Pandit, said that it must return to the basics of search, testing and care.” As we have seen before, cases need one or two months to Up after the new variant was found circulating, “he said Corporation Commissioner Dr.
Vijay Suryawanshi said people must be required to observe the safety measures of social distance and wear face masks outside the home.
“I have asked the association of hotels and commercial companies and trade unions to comply with all the safety norms using masks.
Our civilian teams will begin to torture those who fail to wear masks and shop owners and other companies that will not follow Covid safety guidelines, “he added.
(Input by Pradeep Gupta)