With Odisha witnessing a declining trend in the Covid-19 positive cases over the last week, Public Health Director Dr Niranjan Mishra on Thursday said it seems like the State has touched the peak during the ongoing third wave of the pandemic.
Mishra said, “The State is reporting around 5,000 to 7,000 new cases daily. The single-day cases and total active cases are in a declining trend."
“It seems, as of now, the State has touched the peak of the third wave, but other countries have been hit by fourth and fifth waves too. So, exact prediction about the peak is difficult,” he observed.
He further said, “As the transmissibility of Omicron is very high, it is difficult to exactly predict when will the cases rise and fall. Therefore, people need to be cautious. Unless the daily cases come to the baseline, we have to monitor the situation closely.”
Experts are also of the opinion that the continuous decrease in the daily cases during the third wave of the pandemic is the indication that the State has already hit the peak and the graph is in a plateau state at present.