With the discovery of the presence of Delta plus variant of Covid in Jammu Kashmir Covid patients have sounded the alarm bell for UT Administration up to districts level and the Health delivery system should remain extra alert and prepared in the coming days to meet the likely challenge. After Tamil Nadu and Karnataka, Jammu and Kashmir now became the third state on Wednesday to report the first cases of Delta Plus Variant in Katra in district Reasi of Jammu and the patient has recovered at the Government Medical College and Hospital at Jammu.
Authorities are reportedly verifying the details to ascertain if the patient is a traveller or a local as Katra serves as the base camp for the pilgrims visiting the Vaishno Devi shrine atop Trikuta hills.
The Delta plus Variant was detected from the samples regularly being sent (to National Centre for Disease Control, Delhi) for genome sequencing.
Though it looks that the Covid cases are declining in Jammu and Kashmir, but the administration should not down its guards and relents in any way. It should keep itself fully prepared to take head on the likely enemy changing it’s characteristic so suddenly. The weak points and loose joints, if any in the health delivery system should be replenished and tightened forthwith in this low pressured situation available in J&K
According to the studies, the Delta variant, the significantly more transmissible strain of Covid-19, is expected to become a dominant lineage if current trends continue, the WHO has warned after it was reported in 85 countries and continues to be detected in more places around the world.
The Covid-19 Weekly Epidemiological Update by the World Health Organisation (WHO) said that globally, the variant Alpha has been reported in 170 countries, territories or areas, Beta in 119 countries, Gamma in 71 countries and Delta in 85 countries.
Delta, now reported in 85 countries globally, continues to be reported in new countries across all WHO Regions, 11 of which were newly reported in the past two weeks, the update said. WHO said the four current ‘Variants of Concern’ being monitored closely – Alpha, Beta, Gamma and Delta – are widespread and have been detected in all WHO regions.
On society’s part, the situation should not be taken lightly and everyone should follow the Covid-appropriate behaviour seriously and ensure not only an individual’s protection but of collective vulnerability. Having relaxations issued by the administration for economic interests does not mean that the Corona and its more dangerous cousins at prowl, has gone for permanent.
There is no room for laxity. We have to stop the transmission chain of the new variant as well and we have to finish it in its host.
