Ghaziabad: The average number of patients who were allowed the facility of home isolation has reached 47.73% of total active cases during the first fortnight of December. The figure is the highest in any fortnight achieved so far ever since the home isolation facility for asymptomatic patients was allowed by the state government in July, according to data of the district health department.

The official records also indicate that 10,381 patients so far opted for home isolation till December 18, and 9,602 of them were discharged. The discharge rate is about 92.49%. The health department data indicated that there were an average of 1,370 active cases during the first fortnight in December and an average of 654 of these patients were allowed home isolation. During the previous fortnight from November 16 to November 30, the district had an average of about 1,335 active cases and an average of 561 of these were eligible for home isolation with a share of 42.03%. The experts said the records indicate that the district has more of asymptomatic patients.

“The higher percentage of Covid-19 positive patients in home isolation indicates that they were asymptomatic patients and the number of such patients has increased. The figures also indicate that the severity of infection has also decreased,” said Dr Ashish Agrawal, president of Indian Medical Association – Ghaziabad. “The trend so far is encouraging as we were expecting major spike in winter season, but cases have not increased much. Still, there is need to keep monitoring the situation each day,” he added.

During the period November 1 to November 15, the district had an average of 1,281 active cases with an average of 575 patients in home isolation at a share of about 44.8%, the data showed. Similarly, from October 16 to October 31, the district had an average of 1,153 active cases with an average of 542 patients in home isolation which is a share of about 47%. This is the second highest share ever since the home isolation was introduced.

“Our teams carefully scan patients before allowing them for home isolation. The trend is encouraging and we are still monitoring every home isolation patient through our Covid control room, besides initial monitoring by the rapid response teams,” said Ajay Shankar Pandey, district magistrate, Ghaziabad. “Since, there are more patients in home isolation and our active cases have also fallen below 1,000, we have sufficient availability of beds in the district,” he added.

The officials said that with the overall discharge rate of 95.77% as per the state control room figures on December 18, the occupancy of beds in both the government and private hospitals has come down. They further said that 394 patients were active in home isolation on December 18, while another set of 460 patients were in healthcare facilities. These include 72 patients in government hospitals and 388 in private hospitals. The district at present has 1,264 Covid beds in the private hospitals.

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