Covid Peak Likely In Coming Days, May Last For Weeks: Covid Panel Chief
New Delhi With the high transmissibility of the Omicron variant of COVID-19, India is likely to witness a sharp shaft in the number of cases in the coming days, still, following COVID applicable geste and vaccination could help contain the spread of the complaint, noted a top health expert.
India reported further than1.5 lakh new COVID-19 cases for the third successive day on Tuesday. The country reported new COVID-19 cases in the last 24 hours, the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare informed moment.
Speaking to ANI, Chairman of COVID-19 Working Group of National Technical Advisory Group on Immunisation (NTAGI) Dr NK Arora said,”The peak will depend on the contagion transmission, and how well the community adheres to the COVID applicablebehaviour.However, a briskly and high peak is likely to do, If the COVID morals are violated. On the other hand, vaccination and executive conduct like night curfews, and weekend curfews tend to flatten the wind.”
“The way that the IIT Kanpur model has shown, it looks like, the transmission is taking place veritably laboriously and we should be reaching our peak in the near future. But it’s likely to last for several weeks before it subsides,”he added.
Asked about the kind of variant of COVID-19 substantially being detected in the country amid the ongoing third surge, Dr Arora said that by the geste of the contagion, it seems that the surge is driven by the Omicron variant.
“It appears that utmost of the COVID cases being reported in the country now are of the Omicron variant. The original experience from the genomic surveillance showed that from 10 days to two weeks, over 90 per cent of the contagion is circulating in the big metropolises like Delhi, Pune, Mumbai which is the Omicron variant. The geste, mild illness, everybody in the family getting infected, it looks like the swell is driven by Omicron,”he said.
Still, the expert added that the Delta variant responsible for the ruinous alternate surge in the country in April-May 2021 can still be plant in some corridor of the country where the Delta epidemic was formerly going on.
“There will be some cases of Delta as well in the areas where Delta epidemic was formerly going on like some sections of Tamil Nadu and the areas of the Northeastern countries. So in a situation like this, we should be more focused on taking care of Omicron and its operation,”he stated.
Speaking on the deaths being due to COVID-19 in the country, the croaker said that utmost of the deaths are associated with cases with comorbidities.
” Utmost of the COVID deaths being on a diurnal base are associated with comorbidities like heart attack, brain stroke or other problems. But yes, there are some deaths that are being because of the contagion. But overall the situation is under control,”he said.
” About 85 per cent of the deaths being reported are from people above 60 times of age,”Dr Arora added.
Meanwhile, the census of the active cases of COVID-19 in the country has reached. A aggregate of cases of the Omicron variant of coronavirus have been reported so far.
The country also witnessed 277 new COVID- related deaths in the last 24 hours. As numerous as people have succumbed to the infection so far.
