Amid the spike in Covid-19 cases in Odisha, the city-based Institute of Life Sciences under the central government's Department of Biotechnology, said that the coronavirus situation in the state is likely to improve from the second week of September.
This was stated by ILS director Dr Ajay Parida.
He claimed that the situation will gradually normalise after reaching the peak in the first week of September. "This (fall in cases) has happened in Ganjam district and will occur in other parts of the state," Dr Parida said on Monday, adding that testing, tracing and isolation are the three major factors to contain the spread of the infection in the community.
He said despite the spike in Covid-19 cases, the state continues to maintain a high rate of recoveries and low rate of fatalities. "This is a good sign," Parida said, adding that the positivity rate is also on decline with increase in the number of tests.
"The positivity and fatality rates in Odisha is much below the national average", he said. The ILS director, however, expressed apprehensions over re-emergence of the virus.
"Though the rate of spread of Covid-19 had come down in Kerala, it again surfaced in that state. Going by this analysis, one cannot accurately predict complete eradication of the infection," he said.
Source: PTI
