![]() Rice farmer’s son from Odisha’s Kothasahi village and volleyball-convert Kishore Jena looks to make a mark in javelin.Rinku Singh on India T20 call: “Everytime I talk to my parents, we end up crying”.WATCH: Stuart Broad nabs the final wicket as England beat Australia to draw the Ashes 2-2.Chennai, a forgotten hub, warms-up for big-time hockey again.Children’s University doing important work: Governor.Gujarat receives 78% of season’s average rainfall, most of it in July.Sardar Sarovar crosses 130-metre mark dams in Gujarat 70.47 pc full.Our desire to eat out, socialize, not follow guidelines of wearing masks, avoid crowds and public places, is costing us, as we see a rise in cases daily.” So apart from confusion, there is a lack of responsibility. The other one had tested negative once after her husband was tested positive and now has headache, pain in shoulder and fatigue, but doesn’t want to be tested again. I had two patients walk in today, one with fever and cough, who got angry with me when I suggested a COVID test, for he said, I know it is a viral infection, for I was caught in the rain. ![]() There are so many patients who have symptoms, but are not getting tested, because of fear and social isolation, and this will lead to a spread of disease. People in home isolation must be advised and guided properly regarding testing and the quarantine period and those who have someone in the family tested positive for COVID-19 must be tested, even if the patient is recovered. ![]() “The quarantine period was reduced from 14 to 10 and now at some places it is seven days. Both awareness and social responsibility go hand in hand, adds the doctor, if we have to stop the spread of the infection.Īnother senior doctor, a private practitioner, agrees there is confusion and chaos regarding guidelines on testing and recovery, as earlier the patients who were admitted were tested twice before being deemed recovered. Social conditions, adds a senior doctor at a government hospital, are also responsible for the steady rise in cases, with many who may be carrying the infection, forced to work to earn their daily bread, and many even if tested positive not revealing to others, for the fear of loss of business and money. Chandigarh is now seeing a steady and sharp rise in COVID-19 cases, and according to Dr Malhotra, every part of the country will face a peak, though here we have not yet reached a peak and are heading towards it. As for the confusion regarding symptomatic and asymptomatic cases, data, adds the doctor, reveals that in symptomatic patients, the viral load is more, as compared to those who are asymptomatic, and then comes the issue of how much contact we have had with a symptomatic patient. And that’s why a mandatory minimum period of 14 days of quarantine is important.Īccording to the ICMR guidelines, when admitted to a hospital, a patient with symptoms and in need of oxygen is considered recovered when he\she is symptom-free for three days. So that means the patient is not infective, but in biological terms, nothing is absolute, he says. ![]() While those who tested positive must indicate 10 days of being asymptomatic, for the asymptomatic cases, it is 17 days from being detected positive, with a mandatory quarantine period of 17 days,” the doctor adds.ĭr Pankaj Malhotra from the Department of Internal Medicine, PGIMER, who had also set up the COVID Hospital here, has an interesting point to make regarding the issue, when he says that after 10 days, when a patient has no symptoms, he is considered recovered and discharged. ![]() “Earlier the protocol of recovery was based on retesting and now it is based on the MOHFW guideline of 10 days of asymptomatic period. ![]()
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