{"id":51638,"date":"2022-06-24T17:49:07","date_gmt":"2022-06-24T12:19:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kashmir.today\/no-need-to-panic-over-rise-in-covid-cases-dak\/"},"modified":"2022-06-24T17:49:07","modified_gmt":"2022-06-24T12:19:07","slug":"no-need-to-panic-over-rise-in-covid-cases-dak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=51638","title":{"rendered":"No need to panic over rise in Covid cases: DAK"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong><em>Srinagar, June 24:<\/em><\/strong> With rise of Covid-19 cases in Kashmir valley over the last few days, Doctors Association Kashmir (DAK) on Friday said there is no need to panic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThere is no increase in hospitalization, so the rise in cases should not be a cause of worry\u201d said DAK President and influenza expert Dr Nisar ul Hassan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dr Hassan said case counts have lost relevance; hospitalization numbers are now reliable markers when it comes to assessing the threat from pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Daily case count was used as a barometer early in the pandemic because that time a rise in cases inevitably led to increase in hospitalizations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cBut that has changed now,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWith most being immune either by way of vaccination or natural immunity, even with large number of infections we see miniscule numbers in hospitals.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The DAK President said if we continue to highlight only the increase in cases, we run the risk of causing unnecessary public panic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe thinking around the pandemic and how we characterize and measure it needs to change,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cCovid-19 has entered into the endemic stage and the rise and fall in cases is going to be a routine process,\u201d Dr Nisar said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWhat we are seeing in terms of a spike in Covid cases is on expected line,\u201d he said adding the current surge is not a wave but an endemic spike and we expect these fluctuations in future too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cPeople need to learn to live with Covid-19 as the virus is going to stay with us,\u201d said General Secretary DAK Dr Arshad Ali.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cCovid-19 has become yet another infection joining many other diseases that humanity has learned to live,\u201d he said.<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Srinagar, June 24: With rise of Covid-19 cases in Kashmir valley over the last few days, Doctors Association Kashmir (DAK) on Friday said there is no need to panic. \u201cThere is no increase in hospitalization, so the rise in cases should not be a cause of worry\u201d said DAK President and influenza expert Dr Nisar [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":50900,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-union-territory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51638","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51638"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51638\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}