Covid-19 Scare: No Difference In Mortality In First And Second Wave

The second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic has strangulated the entire nation and all we can see is piles and heaps of bodies in hospitals and also in the crematoriums, cemeteries and graveyards. People are dying in large numbers and it is estimated the death toll in the second wave is much higher than the first wave. However, ICMR revealed that there was no difference in mortality among COVID-19 patients in the first and second wave. Northeast Today reports.

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Leading doctors in charge of India's national COVID-19 management strategy have said that there was no difference in mortality among COVID-19 patients in the first and second waves. There has been a relative increase in instances of those manifesting shortness of breath as a symptom of the infection. They further said that like in the first wave, in the second wave as well the death risk was higher among the patients above 60 years.

In a recent statement to the media, senior doctors engaged with the COVID-19 management strategy informed that the second wave has infected a marginally higher proportion of patients who are below the age of 20 years.

Patients below the age of 20 years infected in the second wave is 5.8 per cent, while the number in the first wave was 4.2 per cent. This is a marginal increase in the number, the statement to the media read.

In the first wave, 25.5% of the patients were 20-40 years old compared to 23.7% in the ongoing second wave, the statement further added.