KOLKATA: Doctors are seeing a steady rise in the number of patients being admitted to ICU with Covid pneumonia over the past couple of days.
While Delta-like symptoms have been noticed in them, some hospitals have requested the health department to carry out random genome sequencing of their samples to confirm whether their variants are Delta, Omicron or a yet new strain. “In the past four to five days, I have been coming across an increasing number of patients coming in with bad Covid. Currently, four of them, including a patient in his late 40s, are on ventilation and three on high oxygen requirement. We know about 80% cases are now Omicron and the rest are Delta, but we need to keep an eye out for new variants. That is why we have sent request for genome sequencing on a few samples,” said pulmonologist Raja Dhar of CMRI.
