Summary:
For many in the city, it is back to the old normal as the number of Covid-19 cases started reducing significantly over the past few months.
But if the latest data is anything to go by, it is hardly time to let down one’s guard against the invisible enemy.
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For many in the city, it is back to the old normal as the number of Covid-19 cases started reducing significantly over the past few months.
But if the latest data is anything to go by, it is hardly time to let down one’s guard against the invisible enemy.
After peaking in September, the number of coronavirus cases detected every day in the city and district was on a steady decline.
But the rate at which this was going down has slowed down significantly and in the last couple of days there has been a minor rise.
Sources said that historically as well as during the present pandemic, it was an experience that a second wave of the disease was witnessed.
They pointed out that in the case of Vadodara, this would become clearer in the coming days.
It took eight days for the number of cases reported per day to fall from 80 to 70 and six days to fall from 70 per day to 60 per day.
It took nine days for the number to reach from 60 cases a day to 50 per day.
But the number has still not reached 40 and has started rising by a case a day since Monday.
VMC’s medical officer (health) Dr Devesh Patel said that the rise was significant and could be due to persons from a large family or group testing positive together.“The spread of the disease is much less now and the hospitalization due to it is also steady.
This is expected to stay amongst us for quite some time,” he said.
The VMC is closely watching the situation elsewhere.