Nearly six months after the peak of the first wave of September 2020, coronavirus cases in India began to rise once again since the first week of March, indicating the arrival of the second wave of pandemic in the country.
Analyzing the first and second waves of Covid-19 that affected India in 2020 and 2021 respectively, DG ICMR said there is no major change in the way different age groups have been affected by Covid-19 in both waves. .
“More than 70% of the two-wave patients are over 40, only a marginally higher proportion of younger patients,” Bhargava said based on the study of 1,885 second-wave patients and 7,600 second-wave patients. the first wave.
According to the ICMR analysis, Bhargava said in the second wave that a higher proportion of asymptomatic patients has been recorded.
Addressing the media, he said there are no differences in deaths between the first and second wave among hospitalized patients.
In the second wave, while the oxygen requirement is higher, the fan is not high, Bhargava said. Bhargava appealed that oxygen waste should not occur and should be streamlined.
VK Paul, a member of NITI Aayog (health), said “there is basically no difference” in comparing patients ’age in the first and second wave.
Paul added that remdesivir should be used in hospitalized patients in moderate stages of oxygen disease and should not be used at home.