Following the State Death Audit Committee’s conclusion that COVID-19 was an incidental finding in nine of the 10 deaths that have been analysed so far, the State Health Department will soon issue directions to doctors to focus on targeted treatment of comorbidities.
State Health Commissioner Randeep D. told The Hindu on Tuesday that early and proper triaging in comorbid COVID-19 patients is very important in the light of the Death Audit committee’s analysis. “People need not panic as although the JN.1 sub-variant is highly transmissible, the virulence is not high,” he said.
“Only one of the 10 deaths analysed was due to COVID-19 as concluded by the Death Audit committee. The other deaths were mainly where COVID-19 exacerbated the pre-existing comorbidity or where COVID-19 was an incidental finding. So, doctors would have to focus more on targeted treatment of comorbidities after early and proper triaging in comorbid COVID-19 patients,” he said.
