Summary:
The infectivity of Covid-19 virus strains currently prevalent in the state is much high compared to the ones last year, going by ground reports.
In the latest findings, hospitals treating Covid-19 patients are recording multiple people within the same family getting affected by the virus.
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The infectivity of Covid-19 virus strains currently prevalent in the state is much high compared to the ones last year, going by ground reports.
In the latest findings, hospitals treating Covid-19 patients are recording multiple people within the same family getting affected by the virus.
“We are getting requests from several family members of patients admitted here to take them in as well.
We currently have 150 critical patients and almost all of them have family members who are infected as well.
In some cases, they are only mildly infected but there are two or more family members of almost all these patients who are currently positive.
This shows that the positivity rate is very high,” said Dr M Raja Rao, superintendent, Gandhi hospital.
In fact, health authorities, too, have sounded an alert on the high infectivity during the current wave of the virus.
“The current strains’ circulation seem to be more infectious, although its not more severe.