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New Delhi, 30 October
With hospitalizations and the number of deaths from Covid-19 being minimal in recent months despite other people sometimes not meeting the behavioral criteria, we know that the prevalence of the viral disease has reached its endemic stage.
According to some experts, there is not much difference between the number of seasonal flu cases and that of Covid-19, under pressure that surveillance for new variants merits continuing in case a new coronavirus line catches the country off guard.
Currently, the symptoms of covid and flu are very similar and can be considered as a flu-like syndrome and the remedy is still necessarily supportive, said Dr. Randeep Guleria, former director of AIIMS and professor of pulmonology at the hospital.
Although the cases, i. e. in the high-risk organization, could have been more severe, the mortality lately is negligible and similar to what was noticed in this organization before Covid, Dr Guleria told PTI.
“Looking at the existing number of cases, we can say that Covid has almost reached the endemic phase. The number of cases that occur in hospitals is nearly equivalent to or less than seasonal influenza. After familiarizing themselves with the facets of the disease, other people have also been happy to realize that this specific Covid condition will now remain benign and will not lead to extensive and serious care, etc. ” said Dr. Neeraj Gupta, senior respirologist and additional medical superintendent. “from Safdarjung Hospital,” he told PTI.
Dr. Gupta emphasized, however, that other vulnerable people, such as the elderly and those with comorbidities, will still require precautions to those needed for other infections such as influenza and pneumonia.
Dr Chandrakant Lahariya, a physician and epidemiologist, said: “What we don’t want to forget is that neither one nor both new variants automatically become a concern. There would be a stable emergence of SARS CoV2 variants for a long time. “These need to be tracked and genomic sequencing done, but it doesn’t make sense to start the discussion about the new wave with a report of both new variants. “
“India has far exceeded the main risk of serious covid effects. The disease has become endemic in the country and we deserve to start controlling and responding to SARS-CoV2 like any other viral disease,” Dr. Lahariya said.
According to NTAGI leader Dr. NK Arora, it has been a year since Omicron first described it as a variant of fear and since then there have been more than 70 sublineages.
Over the past nine to ten months, hospitalizations and deaths have not accumulated in India despite dynamic changes in the proportion of Omicron sublineages across the country. Almost all sublineages described around the world also circulate in India without a building. in severe cases of Covid.
“Due to the widespread Covid vaccination policy and herbal infection, we are in a relatively comfortable scenario when it comes to the pandemic. However, Covid is very proportionate around us and we must be careful that the network is not caught off guard by a serious illness causing the covid variant,” Dr Arora said.
An infection is said to be endemic in a population when this infection is maintained at a reference point in a geographic domain without external input.
Daily coronavirus cases in the country have been less than 3,000 in the past 27 days, while deaths have been less than ten in the past 22 days.
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