Reemergence of Covid : Still need to be watchful

All of us are aware of the ongoing?Covid pandemic, although the infection has been brought under control, because massive vaccination drive, yet it's important to know that, the infection has not been totally eradicated and still we have ongoing infection in the community, here and few outbreaks in different cities across the globe on a larger scale, like recently in Beijing.

The most important change is, in the way covid is presented.

Now mostly the symptoms are like normal seasonal flu, namely?

Fever, body pain, throat pain, headache, backache, cough which is dry, loose stools in some, in contrast to seasonal flu which produces lot of sectetions in form of running nose, sneezing, cough with expectoration, phlem. Body pain and tiredness is less in seasonal flu as compared?to Covid infection.

Owing to the new variants of Covid 19 like Omicron and subvariants which has?replaced the earlier Delta variant which had caused a devastating second wave. Now the disease is behaving as mild cases only.

Precautions are still needed to be taken as the infection is still circulating in the community and we are getting few cases everyday.

1. Masks are still important to be worn , especially in closed spaces, hospital visits.

2. It's still good to maintain social distancing and avoiding handshakes.

3. Avoid going to crowded places in order to limit the spread of infection.

4 Ignoring the symptoms is not advisable and one should seek medical.help in case one has symptoms.

Dr Dilip Kumar Singhvi

Specialist Internal Medicine

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