As Covid-19 cases rise in Maha, doctors say most patients have mild symptoms

Amid a surge in Covid19 cases in Mumbai and other parts of Maharashtra medical experts say most of the patients are showing mild symptoms and fatality is low in the present mild wave and also no new virus variant of concern has been observedThe patients were being administered paracetamol and not Remdesivir drug which was used for patients in the first and second Covid19 waves they saidAccording to the health department data Maharashtra recorded 9354 Covid19 cases in May of which 5980 were reported from Mumbai The state also recorded 17 fatalities last monthFrom June 1 to 12 there were 23941 Covid19 cases in Maharashtra of which 14945 were reported from Mumbai alone The state has recorded 12 fatalities from June 1 to 12Dr Sunil Bhaisare associate professor of medicine at the staterun J J Hospital in Mumbai told PTI that though there is a spurt in Covid19 cases the patients are showing mild symptomsMumbai the countrys financial capital sees a lot of international passengers Besides all Covid19 restrictions including wearing of masks have been lifted he notedBhaisare who manages a Covid19 facility at staterun St George Hospital in south Mumbai said at present his facility has only 19 patients most of them are either prisoners or those in police custodyNo patient is requiring oxygen support If they are coming up with any kind of complaint we are administering only paracetamol and other supportive treatment Bhaisare saidDr Manjusha Agarwal senior consultantinternal medicine at the Global Hospital in Mumbai said in the present Covid19 surge patients are getting better in 48 to 72 hoursNobody required Remdesivir or any immunotherapy The patients are not having major complications So the good thing is that vaccination has helped everyone she saidEven as cases rise Agarwal said there is nothing to worry and described the current surge as a iquestmild waveiquest compared to what was seen in January this yearThis is the mildest wave of Covid19 that I have seen she said but stressed that precautions like wearing masks and following Covid19 protocols are still very importantDr Rakesh Mishra director of the Tata Institute for Genetics and Society in Bengaluru said no new variant of concern has been observed nor there is any indication of new variant in the countryOn May 28 the Maharashtra health department said that for the first time four patients of BA4 variant and three cases of BA 5 variants of the Omicron sublineage of coronavirus were found in the state All the seven cases were from PuneBesides one case each of BA5 was reported on June 7 and 11 in PuneDr Sonam Solanki consultant pulmonologist at the Masina Hospital in Mumbai said a significant rise in the Covid19 cases is being seeing since last week and it is expected to go up furtherThe predominant variant in this surge is a sublineage of Omicron which is BA5 and BA4 Although these strains are more transmissible majority of the cases are mild and get managed with home isolation she saidThe vulnerable elderly population with comorbidities would still be at the risk of infection Solanki saidThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever