"Be cautious but not worry": Director of Public Health for Odisha govt on hike in COVID cases
COVID-19 cases
in India,
Dr. Nilakantha Mishra
, Director of Public Health for the Government of Odisha, urged the public not to worry since this strain seems to be very mild.
Speaking to ANI, Dr Mishra said, "The number of COVID cases is increasing, but the number of
hospitalisations
is not increasing.
There is nothing to worry about since this strain seems to be very mild. We advise people to be cautious but not to worry."
On May 27, the number of COVID-19 cases in India reached 1,010. According to medical experts, the symptoms are similar to those of colds or flus.
Chief Executive Officer of Dr. Dangs Lab, Arjun Dang, on Tuesday stated that the rising cases of Covid-19 belonged to the sub-lineage of the Omicron virus.
Dang further stated that in states like Tamil Nadu and Gujarat, the variants that were named as 'Variants under Monitoring' were of types LF7 and NV181 and were more transmissible.
"We must understand that the current spreading variants are again a sublineage of the Omicron virus. Additionally, in states like Tamil Nadu and Gujarat, we have certain other sub-variants that have been named Variants Under Monitoring, and these are basically of two types, LF7 and NV181.
Currently, the cases that we are seeing are more transmissible. They can infect people easily, but again, from the severity perspective, till now, we have not seen any severe cases," Dang told ANI.
He further stated that symptoms of patients were only common cold and flu, and added that hospitalisations currently were minimal.
"All of these are actually presenting as common cold and flu, and the usual symptoms that we have in any kind of common cold, even the hospitalisations, have been minimal," he added.
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