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New Delhi, March 06, 2020:
Scenario India:
- 31 cases in India (17 outside India)
- Delhi Noida Gurugram Agra Jaipur Kerala Ghaziabad (5 states)
- 28 active cases
- Serious none
- Two clusters (driver + 16 Italians Jaipur, 1 Delhi + 6 relatives Agra), 1 Ghaziabad, 3 cured in Kerala, 1 Gurugram PTM employee, 1 Telangana, 1 Delhi
- No community spread
- 17 Indians abroad infected with coronavirus: 16 cases reported from Japan on the cruise ship and one from the UAE
- Stage: cases, two clusters (human to human transmission) with no community spread (surface to human transmission).
- Cluster management
- No super spreader in India as doubling time is not abnormal. Epidemic doubling time is 7.5 days (Korea 1 day with Tripling time of 3 days was due to a super spreader)
- Positive cases and close contacts need isolation, masks, and treatment. Taken care by the government.
- Others do not need masks but only hand and face hygiene
Key points
- Cough, no fever: pollution
- Cough and cold no fever: allergy
- Fever with cough and cold: H1N1 flu
- Low grade fever with cough lasting two weeks rule out TB
- Fever with dry cough: Corona virus a possibility, call your doctor to ask what to do
- Fever, cough and breathlessness, no oxygen requirement: Call your doctor to rule out corona infection. Revisit travel history or meeting with people who have travelled Internationally recently.
- Fever, cough and breathlessness, with oxygen requirement: Call your doctor to admit you and rule out corona infection. Revisit travel history or meeting with people who have travelled Internationally recently.
- Fever and sore throat in children: Rheumatic bacterial sore throat
SOS
Call you doctor, MOH helpline number
Do not rush to a hospital with crowded OPDs, go for tele consultation
Dr KK Aggarwal
President CMAAO, HCFI and Past National President IMA
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