INDORE: Even though Covid-19 active cases soar close to 9000 in district, the hospitalised patients number remained less than 200 including those in Covid care centres (CCC).
The active cases jumped to 8940 on Saturday night as district reported the highest single day tally of 1852 infections. Despite this, the hospitalised Covid-19 patients number remained at 196 including 33 in CCC.
On Sunday, the Covid-19 patients hospitalisation rate stand at 2.19% including those in CCC. In case, number of patients in CCC is subtracted the hospitalisation rate fell to well below 1.50% in district.
MGM dean Dr Sanjay Dixit said, “The surge in district and country is because of new Omicron variant of the Covid-19 virus that spreads very fast. Because of it, the severity causing capabilities is less as evident from data of countries in western world and South Africa.”
“The early trends in district are also pointing towards the same thing. The daily cases number are on higher side, but hospitalisation is very low”, Dr Dixit said.
The district had already reported 11566 Covid-19 infections from December 25 at a daily average of 550 cases. The district also reported five fatalities only so far.
HoD Respiratory medicine SAIMS, Dr Ravi Dosi told TOI, “Even those patients of Covid-19 infection, who are getting hospitalized are comorbid and elderly.”
“Most of the Covid-19 infection don’t have any major symptoms or disease except a few that were admitted to ICU”, said Dr Dosi.
“Even in those identified with Omicron, they were asymptomatic and were given multivitamins. The one case developed fever, body ache and was given analgesic and pain killer”, said Dr Dosi.
“Of those six confirmed cases treated at hospital, nobody had symptoms like cough, cold, sore throat, loss of smell, taste like reported earlier”, said Dr Dosi.
