The COVID-19 positivity rate reached 6.46% with additional 4,099 fresh COVID-19 cases being reported in Delhi on Monday, which is the highest single-day rise since May 18 last year. 

The Delhi government has repeatedly assured the public to remain calm as the Omicron infection seems to be mild. But the worry was a steady increase in hospitalizations despite the doctors claiming that the cases are mild and asymptomatic. The Delhi government’s daily health bulletin said that 420 hospital beds were occupied by Covid-19 patients on Monday. Patients on oxygen beds went up from 94 to 124 within 24 hours while the number of severely ill patients also rose from 4 to 7. 

A senior health official said that there was no reason to worry, as many Covid care centers were still not opened so, patients were being taken to the currently functional Covid care centres of hospitals.

In the same note, another senior doctor told that hospitalisation rate was increasing because many patients were from outside Delhi and from the airport, who on testing positive were being isolated in hospital wards. He further told, that currently patients with mild symptoms were being shifted to hospitals and not to Covid care centres at Commonwealth Games Village. The isolation wards at these centres would be functional in a couple of days and the milder cases would be shifted there.

Another senior doctor working with a government hospital said, they were more concerned about the Delta variant as it was a stronger than Omicron, but the transmissibility of Omicron was much higher.

Source: The New Indian Express