Tag: #Omicron #Kashmir

  • Omicron symptoms mild but spike in cases can create trouble: Dr Fayaz

    JAMMU, JANUARY 14:  While it took 25 days for daily cases to rise from 100 to 1000, during the second wave of Covid-19, the numbers have more than doubled in just 15 weeks in the third wave. Roughly double the number of cases are being recorded in half the time in the present Omicron wave’.

    Professor Department of Medicine, Government Medical College Jammu, Dr. Fayaz Ahmad Wani has warned that the high infectivity rate of the coronavirus during the present wave should not be taken lightly. Although the symptoms are mostly mild in appearance, the sheer number of infected is a major concern nonetheless, he highlighted.

    Dr Wani advised everybody to keep observing Covid appropriate behaviour, maintain social distancing and avoid unnecessary public gatherings. He suggests that senior citizens, comorbid patients and those with severe health conditions need to take extra precaution and take a healthy diet.

    The Professor also assured that the Covid hospitalisation rate is only around 5 to 10 percent, which is less as compared to 20-23 percent recorded during the second coronavirus wave. He warned that the rate might even increase owing to the sudden rise in positive cases as hospitalisation is usually required a week post infection.

    For asymptomatic patients and people in isolation, Dr Wani said that such persons must contact the doctor if they feel breathlessness, chest pain, have their breath rate exceeding 24 or if they feel a sense of confusion. Any such unusual development must be intimated to the doctor and medical help be sought, he advised.

    The doctor has also urged all eligible persons to get vaccinated and practise hand hygiene and frequent hand sanitisation.

  • Omicron enters J&K: 10 fresh cases detected in 48 Hrs

    5 cases each reported in Kashmir, Jammu regions; tally at 13; 3 among 10 tourists go back; condition of two locals stable: Top Health officials

    Srinagar, Jan 11: Ten cases of Omicron were detected in J&K which includes three non-local travellers, taking the tally of total detected cases to 13 in J&K, officials said on Tuesday.

    A top health official told the news agency—Kashmir News Observer (KNO) that the first case of Omicron was detected in Kashmir on Monday while four more were detected today.

    He said that three among the five detected cases include three non-local travellers whose samples were taken in Anantnag and they have already returned back.

    An official told KNO that the person from Shopian and pregnant lady from Uri who were detected positive for Omicron are stable and have recovered as well.

    “Robust teams are working to trace contact of the two persons who have been tested positive for Omicron,” an official said.

    He said that we are working to find out with whom people have met since a person tested positive for Covid-19 and later omicron.

    While giving details of cases, he said that three tourists whose samples were detected positive for Omicron include a 19-year -old male and 22-year-old female from Maharashtra and 40 year-old male from Gujarat and their samples were taken from 22 December and 26 December respectively.

    He said that a sample of a pregnant lady from Dhani Syden, Baramulla was taken on December 20, while details of a person from Shopian were sample was detected positive for omicron on Monday were not known.

    Dr Shashi Sudan Principal GMC Jammu told KNO that five fresh cases of omicron were detected in Jammu division on Tuesday whose samples were taken in last month.

    Officials said that among one two belongs to Channi Himmat Jammu and one from Canal road Jammu.

    It is pertinent to mention here that earlier three cases of Omicron were detected in Jammu including two women from Saraswati Vihar in Talab Tillo Bohri and a student of Kendriya Vidyalaya Bantalab, however, all three patients had already recovered—(KNO)