The rise in number of COVID-19 cases should not be a cause of concern as long as the number of serious patients and deaths due to the disease remain low, say public health experts in Gujarat

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cases ought not be a reason for worry as long as the quantity of genuine patients and passings because of the ailment stay low, say general wellbeing specialists in Gujarat.
They are additionally of the view that the new cases being accounted for day by day ought to be classified as gentle, moderate or extreme to more readily comprehend the pandemic.
“We are finding new cases regular, yet the principal thing we have to know is what number of them are not kidding,” said Dileep Mavalankar, Director of the Gandhinagar-based Indian Institute of Public Health.
“The administration should report what number of new patients have been put on oxygen or ventilator support…we are revealing low mortality,” he said.
The new cases ought to be isolated into three classifications mellow, moderate, if a patient needs oxygen, and serious, in the event that he/she needs ventilator uphold, he said.
In an ongoing report, Mavalankar found that among March and July, the level of passings due to COVID-19 contrasted with different infections in India was 1.3, as against 13 percent in the US and 17.6 percent in the UK.
He said the administration ought not disregard fatalities because of different reasons just to control the more than one percent COVID-19 passings.
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