Asymptomatic patients less likely to infect others: Govt



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The government on May 9, reviewed download policy for covid-19 patients, indicating that the positive cases have mild symptoms can be managed without hospitalization. The decision to review the discharge policy was based on the evidence, Lav Agarwal, joint secretary, Union ministry of health, said Wednesday. The government had recently said that 80% of cases are asymptomatic.

“The new discharge policy is based on evidence, where we have found that presymptomatic, mild symptomatic cases, or in moderate cases to the case of not have a fever for 10 days will not be able to spread the infection to others,” said Agarwal. “However, we have indicated that, even after the patient leaves the covid of the installation, you must self-quarantine himself/herself for at least seven days and must also take all necessary precautions. You should not leave.”

The ministry of health in the review of their discharge policy, said mild, very mild, and pre-symptomatic cases admitted to a covid center of attention going to be subjected to regular temperature and pulse monitoring.

The patient may be discharged after the 10 days of the onset of symptoms, if there has been no fever for three days for mild very mild/pre-symptomatic cases. To moderate cases admitted dedicated covid health center, these patients will be discharged after 10 days of the onset of symptoms in the absence of a fever without the fever reducers, the resolution of the shortness of breath, and without oxygen requirement, according to the revision of the discharge policy. There will be No need for testing prior to discharge in both of these cases.

As India has been the scale of their tests for covid-19, the Indian Council of Medical Research (icmr) said that, to date, 2,536,149 samples have been tested. In the last 24 hours, most of 107,609 tests had been carried out in 555 laboratories, including 391 government and 164 private labs.

“We’ve stepped up the testing and the journal of the figure of the last two days going over a lakh. Of 107,609 tests, 89,466 tests were carried out in the icmr laboratories, while 18,143 tests were carried out in private laboratories,” said Dr. Raman Gangakhedkar, chief scientist of epidemiology and communicable diseases at icmr.

In India the rate of the test, at 1,852 per million of population, however, remains one of the lowest in the world.

The total of the account of the covid-19 cases on Wednesday came to 111,536, but the government said that India has been able to slow the pace of covid-19 infections. “In comparison with the global scale, where there is 62.3 cases per lakh, India still has only 7.9 cases per lakh of the population. In the same way, for the mortality per lakh of the population, while the global index is 4.2, the India, the figure is 0.2. The relatively low death figures represent timely case identification and clinical management of cases,” said Agarwal.

“The approach in the clinical management and the recovery has resulted in the improvement in the recovery rate. More than 39.6% of the confirmed cases have recovered, bringing the total to 42,298 recoveries, as of today,” he said. This shows that the disease is curable and the clinical management of the protocols adopted by the India are effective.

The government said that the recovery of data in cases of assets under management shows that approximately 2.9% of these patients require the help of oxygen, approximately 3% of need for intensive care unit support, and 0.45% need respiratory assistance.

India has simultaneously been focused on the improvement of covid-dedicated health-care infrastructure, Agarwal said. However, the 15, Finance Commission pointed out that there is an immediate need to assess the requirement of health personnel, doctors and paramedics, and the estimate of the resource needs to 2021-22 to 2025-26 in relation to the health infra-gap, including the hospital infrastructure, medical equipment and personal protective equipment.

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