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The South Asian region has done well in mounting an appropriate response and has shown notably lower rate of deaths in the COVID-19 pandemic, despite a low level of pandemic preparedness, a study has found.
A paper titled ‘Pandemic Preparedness and Response to COVID-19 in South Asian Countries’ said, “There was a low level of pandemic preparedness in the South Asian region, despite that the region has a lower rate and proportion of deaths attributed to COVID-19, despite case surges similar to the rest of the world.”
Updated Dec 22, 2020 | 11:40 IST
The results are in line with a September analysis by the Indian Institute of Public Health, Gandhinagar that recorded SAR in houses with a primary infected person at 8.8% in rural Gandhinagar, in North Gujarat. Covid infection in Patan from primary contacts lower than Gandhinagar in Gujarat | Photo Credit: Representative Image
Ahmedabad: The secondary attack rate of Covid at households in the Patan district was at 5%, according to an analysis, the results of which had been published in the National Journal of Community Medicine in October.
The results are in line with a September analysis by the Indian Institute of Public Health, Gandhinagar that recorded SAR in houses with a primary infected person at 8.8% in rural Gandhinagar, in north Gujarat. SAR is a mark of the chances of spread from a primary source of infection to other specific groups, say within a house, close and professional contacts, etc.
In Patan, 444 primary Covid-19 positive cases across 389 households were randomly selected for the study conducted between April and August. The study states 1,200 tested Covid-19 positive in the district until August 29, when the state health department had declared 973 cases for the period. Data on these primary cases obtained telephonically found at least 82 of these patients had succumbed. As per the state health department, Patan reported 37 fatalities due to the virus until August 29.
Of the 1,059 secondary high-risk contacts a near average of three contacts per household 60 tested positive for Covid-19, which is 5.6 per cent SAR. It also found a majority of the secondary infection patients were men in the 18-60 age group followed by those aged above 60 years. Around 85 per cent of contacts developed symptoms within seven days of contact with the primary case.
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