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| 3 Omicron cases in Jammu; Health experts press ‘alarm button’ | | |
Early Times Report
Jammu, Dec 22: Even as the government has confirmed that at least three cases of the deadly Omicron has nave tested positive in Jammu, the medical health experts have pressed the “alarm button” saying that the actual number of cases on ground here “may be manifold.”
The government of Jammu and Kashmir recently confirmed to the people that three cases of Omicron variant had tested positive from the winter capital. But what has raised “alarm” about the spread of disease is that the samples were collected on November 30 and that the reports came from the national capital after some twenty days. “The point is that in these twenty days the disease may have spread to other people and as Omicron spreads very rapidly, we cannot take things lightly,” said a medical health expert on the condition of anonymity. Explaining his point further, he said: “In these many days, we can only imagine as to how many new cases may have surfaced due to these three cases,” he added.
He said what is another concern for Jammu is that the healthcare infrastructure is not upto the mark as got exposed during the second wave of the pandemic when “Jammu faced the brunt of the crises and the patients were seen gasping for oxygen literally on the main roads.”
A senior official in the Health department told Early Times that the government was already on the toes. He said “RTPCR testing on mass scale” was being done in the containment zone from where the cases were detected to know if the Omicron has spread.
The country has so far reported at least 213 cases of the Omicron variant of coronavirus, according to the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare. Warning that the Omicron variant of Covid-19 is “at least three times more transmissible” than the Delta variant, the Centre on December 21 directed states and Union Territories to impose strict restrictions in districts reporting high positivity rate, including imposition of night curfew, strict regulation of large gatherings and containment measures. |
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