Bengaluru: India is facing an increased wave of COVID-19 infections with fresh cases flooding from Maharashtra, Karnataka, Kerala, and Delhi NCR, immediately triggering health advisories. Currently, as of the latest update, almost all of the country’s 257 active COVID-19 cases have similar mild symptoms manifesting among patients.
Karnataka has reported its first casualty for this wave, where an 85-year-old from Whitefield, Bengaluru died of multiple organ failure days after his test result came back positive. With this, the state has declared a compulsion for testing respiratory illness cases throughout the state, especially concentrating on Bengaluru, where there have been over 30 additional cases in the recent past.
Maharashtra still remains the state with the maximum intakes with an addition of 43 new cases on Sunday, May 26, thus tallying the number of active cases at 209. Still, despite the numbers, the public is advised by medical experts to best not panic. “It is very mild, like the flu symptoms, at the moment,” say the doctors, adding that the variants NB.1.8.1 and NB.7 are under scan but not currently thought to be a serious issue.
Local health departments in West Bengal and Kerala take their cue from the increase, although it has yet to touch the extent of hospitalization. Most cases are being managed by home isolation, and currently, there are no travel restrictions in place.
Nationwide, health officials are continuously advising and even intimidating citizens, particularly the aged and immunocompromised, of disease severity, such as not to forget using masks in crowded places, practicing regular hand hygiene, and having their flu-like symptoms tested. Never fear; there will be no national-level prohibitory barriers, as each state government is monitoring the situation closely.
Meanwhile, the central government is continuously focusing on vaccination, genome surveillance in reference to public awareness on preparedness of expansion
