Vikrant Shekhawat : Mar 05, 2022, 11:14 AM
After the end of the third wave of Corona in the country's financial capital Mumbai, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has started preparations to deal with the fourth wave in Mumbai. The BMC administration has requested the task force to guide them in dealing with the possible wave.BMC Additional Commissioner Suresh Kakani said that Kanpur IIT has expressed the possibility of fourth wave of corona in the country in June. In which a fourth wave has been warned between June 22 and October 22.It has also been said that between August 15 and August 31, the maximum number of corona patients will appear. After that the fourth wave will end. In view of this, the task force has been approached to deal with the fourth wave.At present, around 100 new corona patients are being found daily in Mumbai. That's why many jumbo centers have been closed. In such a situation, if the task force will guide in this regard, then it will be easy to prevent corona infection.Significantly, the infection of Corona started in Mumbai in March 2020. After that, in view of the frightening situation of Korana, a nationwide lockdown was imposed. During this, Mumbai has faced three waves of corona in almost two years. The Mumbai model of dealing with Corona became famous all over the country.Only 5% of Omicron patients hospitalized in MumbaiAfter getting fully immunized in Mumbai, only five percent of the patients who were caught by the new form of corona virus, Omicron, had to be admitted to the hospital. According to BMC data, there were 17 per cent of Omicron patients who had taken the same dose of anti-Covid-19 vaccines and had to be hospitalised.In the 10th round of genome sequencing, 237 of the samples from 376 people were found to be infected with Omicron. All these samples were from the people of Mumbai. At the same time, according to the State Health Department, 5,005 cases of Omicron have been reported in Maharashtra. Of these, 4,629 patients have become infection free so far.