COVID-19 rising cases: Former director of AIIMS, Delhi, Dr Randeep Guleria, on Saturday mentioned whereas the nation was seeing a contemporary surge in Covid-19 infections, the state of affairs, as of now, is not one to induce panic.”Covid-19 cases have been on the rise across the country. But the majority of the infections are mild. The rate of hospitalisation hasn’t gone up either. It’s not a panic-like situation yet,” Guleria instructed ANI.
He suggested that high-risk teams and the aged have to take additional precautions. The former AIIMS director attributed the spike in the covid case throughout the nation to individuals not following covid acceptable behaviour. “Now, people do not wear masks, wash their hands with sanitisers and do not maintain physical distancing,” he mentioned. Noting that the virus was mutating, he added, “The current rise in cases is due to the XBB.1.16 variant, which is a sub-variant of Omicron.”
“It is infectious and spreads very quickly. There was rainfall in the last few weeks that led to a spike in cases,” he mentioned.”We have to try as much as possible to reduce the number of Covid-19 cases,” he mentioned, reiterating that Covid-appropriate behaviour holds the important thing to stopping the unfold of the virus.
Amid the recent upturn in Covid cases, medical consultants have warned that the brand new XBB1.16 variant is ready to evade the immune programs of individuals and the subsequent 4 weeks are very essential. Meanwhile, a whole of 10,753 new Covid-19 cases had been recorded in the nation on Saturday, as per a bulletin launched by the Union Health Ministry.
Amid a spike in Covid cases in a number of states, mock drills had been undertaken on April 10 and 11 throughout 33,685 well being amenities, together with 28,050 authorities amenities and 5,635 personal well being amenities. Earlier this month, Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud mentioned attorneys had been free to seem nearly in courtroom in the wake of the rising variety of Covid cases.Â
(With ANI inputs)
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