A street seller who organized facial masks for sale in Thiruvananthapuram on Tuesday in the middle of growing Covid-19 cases in India. | Photo Credit: Nirmal Harindran
Although COVID-19 cases may not be the cause of alarm, masking in public places, especially in hospitals or enclosed premises, it should now become the norm for the elderly, pregnant women and women with chronic co-morbidity, the officials of the health department have been repeated.
“We just want people to realize that Covid is still around, along with other respiratory viruses, and that they should regularly take regular measures such as camouflage in public places to prevent the infection of the virus. doctor.
Since Monday, Kerala has 1,416 active COVID-19 cases. One new death, the death of an 80 -year -old, has also been reported, undergoing treatment of pneumonia with severe acute respiratory distress, diabetes, hypertension and coronary arteries.
The state claims that it does not want a role in the madness of Covid, which seems to slowly take over the rest of the country. It deals with Covid as well as the flu, focusing on standard preventive measures and transfer prevention.
Expand testing
It was decided to expand testing and efforts to achieve all public RT PCR testing laboratories. The flu and is now also very circulated, which means that testing those with respiratory symptoms would help in identifying cases of influenza, which can be initiated on antivirals soon.
“We are afraid of growing cases and we only look at the hospital and the severity of cases, which seems okay. The fact that we have a large part of seniors in the community, as a piece of adults with uncontrolled chronic conditions such as diabetes and hypertension. “
The Omicron Jn.1 variant and its subliminal occurrence of LF.1, which are currently in circulation, cause only a slight disease lasting two to three days. But the emergency rooms and OP clinics are becoming crowded with people who have fever and respiratory symptoms. The main symptoms seem to be fever, fatigue and lethargy; Sometimes accompanied by sore throat, which could become a dry cough. In some cases, doctors reported secondary bacterial infections also requiring antibiotics.
Circular
In a circulator issued by the medical department on Monday, officials ordered all public and private hospitals to customize the symptoms of the red flag -wite, chest pain, blood pressure drop, cyanosis, etc. It has also been directed that all hospitals admit patients with COVID/influenza in separate departments, test family members with symptoms and introduce measures to control the crowd in hospitals.
Hospitals were also asked to review their readiness measures, including the availability of oxygen, medicines, oxygen -supported beds, ICU beds, etc., and make false exercise
Since the flu also makes wheels, for the elderly an annual influenza vaccine is a good idea to prevent chest infections that could get worse to pneumonia. Those known to have diabetes and hypertension should ensure that their blood sugar and blood pressure levels are well regulated.
Public health experts point out that, with the exception of a small minority, almost everyone in the state was either vaccinated against older SARS 2 variants, or could have been exposed to a virus in the past, especially when the omicron wave first swept through the state in 2022.
Thus, almost everyone in the state has either immunity derived from a vaccine or hybrid immunity (infection and vaccination) against earlier variants. However, this immunity could disappear or may not be effective against Omicron and its variants due to immune avoidance. Nevertheless, the previous vaccination is expected to protect people from a severe illness.
“Our situation is now very different since 2020, when Covid first appeared. The state does not recommend that someone vaccinates against Covid again,” said the higher official.
Published – 3 June 2025 20:09
