not sure how scary it will be
Gautam I Menon, professor and dean of the Department of Physics and Life Sciences at Haryana’s Ashoka University, said, “COVID-19 is effectively endemic in the country and virtually all of us must have had an infection by now, whether we knew it or not.” to be or not The virus is behaving like a corona virus which has common cold-like symptoms and can infect us again. Immunologist Satyajit Rath said that there is no information about the real magnitude of the infection.
The picture will not be as frightening as Delta
According to Menon, the number of new cases will continue to rise in the coming weeks, especially in Kerala and Maharashtra where surveillance systems are strong but they will not reach delta wave levels. Menon said that according to the current indications, the fraction of severe cases also appears to be very small compared to the delta. Dr Visveswaran Balasubramanian of Yashoda Hospital in Hyderabad said that there are Covid patients in his hospital but their number is less. “Most of the infections are mild and are treated on an outpatient basis,” he told PTI.
XBB.1.16 is responsible for increasing cases
Questioning the credibility of the number of new Covid cases, he said that for a long time, the number of Covid cases is expected to fluctuate from place to place. According to the Union Health Ministry, 6,050 new cases of corona virus were registered in India on Friday and the number of patients under treatment in the country increased to 28,303. The increase in Covid cases in India is being attributed to the new subtype of the virus, XBB.1.16, which has been active in India for the past few months. The World Health Organization recently said in a statement that there are about 800 sequences of XBB.1.16 in 22 countries and most of the sequences are from India and XBB.1.16 in India has replaced other forms.