With daily growth rate of Covid 19 positive cases on the rise, it is expected that by September 30, total cases will go up over 2 lakh.
According to official estimate current daily growth rate of cases is 2.18 per cent, which was 3.07 per cent in the last fortnight.
So the total cases will be 2.14 lakh by September 30 as experts and public health specialists made a projection, official sources said.The projection was made on calculations based on Seven Days Moving Average, pointed out an official.
On April 30, there were only 142 active cases, which went up to 1,948 on May 31. As on June 30, active cases went up to 7,065, while on July 31, active cases in the State were 31,877.On August 15, it further went up to 57,126 and as on August 31, active cases in Odisha crossed 1lakh mark and it was 1,03,092. With new cases, the State's tally increased to 1,62,920 on September 15. And as on September 30, total cases will be 2,14, 207, experts feel out of which active cases will be 39,821.
Recovered cases on April 30 was 39, on 31 May it was 1,056, on June 30, it was 5,289, which went up to 20, 518 as on July 31.On August 15, recovered cases were 40,727 , while on September 15, they were 1,29,859 which will go up to 1,73,508 by September 30, as recovery rate is high in Odisha.
According to current availability of Covid facilities as of now 8,046 hospital beds are available and ICU beds are 1,070 and ventilators available are 479, officials say.
In the meantime, the number of additional beds in private hospitals for Covid has risen to 7,042 of which 3,746 beds are available for Covid patients as State Government has earmarked 50 per cent of the existing beds for Covid patients in these hospitals.While in these private hospitals 602 ICU beds are available, 80 per cent beds are earmarked for the Covid patients, so 483 ICU beds are available for Covid Care.
So far as plasma therapy is concerned, over 1,300 plasma units have been collected and over 1,191 units have been distributed among the critical patients.
While 980 patients received first plasma treatment, 150 patients received second dose of plasma. The plasma therapy is working well with 438 critical patients having made stable and 280 critical patients having recovered and discharged. 113 patients under plasma therapy are improving.
The therapy for critical Covid-19 patients was introduced in Odisha at the SCB Medical College and Hospital in Cuttack by Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on July 15.