Although the positivity rate is now hovering over 7 per cent in Delhi, the positivity rate of Chandigarh remains just over 1 per cent with daily cases ranging between 10 and 15.
The population of Delhi is more and there could be a possibility that some amount of population, let’s say 10 or 20 percent, remained unaffected in the third wave and are being infected in the present surge.
Dr Rajeev Jayadevan, co-chairman of the Indian Medical Association’s National Task Force on Coronavirus, said, “High levels of recent infections of Omicron would have left ‘residual population immunity’, which is recent enough to stop a big flare, but will keep the disease on a slow burn.
We would like to wait and watch for a few days.” Patients who are coming for testing have mild symptoms such as cold and cough that require home-based care only.
It’s also interesting that while districts of Haryana and UP, neighbouring Delhi such as Gurugram, Faridabad, Ghaziabad and Noida show a high percentage of test positivity, other districts in those states show 2 per cent or less.
Experts say Chandigarh has so far been able to contain the spread of Covid despite a surge in the national capital.
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