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Covid: Demand for oxygen beds and cylinders decouples from past -GS Mudur

-The Telegraph 

The trends so far are in line with observations from South Africa, where demand has been lower during omicron-driven surge

The demand for oxygen beds and ventilators for Covid-19 patients appears for now decoupled from the steep rise in cases and hospitalisation, doctors said on Sunday, citing early observations over the past week in Calcutta, Delhi and Mumbai.

The counts of hospitalised Covid-19 patients have increased in all three cities, but the fractions that require extra oxygen remain lower than those observed during earlier waves, the doctors said. The three cities together accounted for nearly 30 per cent of India’s 159,000 new cases on Saturday.

“We’re seeing a different picture of the infection,” said Anjan Trikha, professor and critical care specialist at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi.

“We’re mainly seeing upper respiratory tract involvement; we’re not seeing pneumonia or acute respiratory distress syndrome.”

Delhi’s daily new infections have increased seven-fold over the past week, from around 2,700 new cases on January 1 to about 20,000 cases on January 8. Covid-19 hospitalisations have also increased alongside — bed occupancy rose from 247 on January 1 to 1,586 on January 8.

In Mumbai too, as daily new infections rose from 6,300 to around 20,300 over the past week, hospital bed occupancy increased from 2,760 to around 7,200 on January 8. Nearly 30 per cent of oxygen-supported beds in the city are now occupied.

In Calcutta, Covid-19 bed occupancy increased from 1.7 per cent on January 1 to 4.9 per cent on January 8.

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