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India: Medics worried as inoculated Bihar doctor gets infected with COVID-19 twice
Sample testing ordered to find out which variant of is infecting her
Published: September 07, 2021 20:25Lata Rani, Correspondent
Patna: Medical fraternity in Bihar is worried after a young doctor posted with a prominent government hospital got infected with COVID-19 virus twice despite being fully vaccinated.
Health officials said the young assistant professor in gynaecology oncology currently working with Patna’s Indira Gandhi Institute of Medical Sciences (IGIMS) was vaccinated in January and March this year. But since then, she has tested positive for coronavirus twice, alarming the health authorities.
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According to the health authorities, the said doctor first got infected in May during the second wave of the COVID-19 and now, she is again infected. The doctor tested positive for coronavirus on Monday, prompting the authorities to go for contact tracing.
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Okieman Comment: What is concerning here is that in all likelyhood the first infection was the Delta variant since it was what was causing the wave in May. So, is this second infection something new or different? Meanwhile, there is a surge of Covid/Flu like viral fever cases in Bihar, with lots of children being hospitalized. Below is an article concerning that.
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Many Bihar districts in grip of viral fever
Manoj Chaurasia | Patna | September 8, 2021 12:33 am
Even as the people still remain in the grip of panic owing to the prediction of a possible third wave of COVID-19, viral fever has gripped many districts of Bihar, leaving the masses further alarmed. What is worrying, however, is that the majority of the victims are children. The viral fever has claimed at least three lives of children so far while hundreds of them have been admitted to various hospitals across the state. The situation is such that all beds for children in most of the government hospitals, such as the Patna Medical College and Hospital (PMCH), Nalanda Medical College and Hospital (NMCH), Indira Gandhi Institute of Medical Sciences (IGIMS) and All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) in Patna is fully occupied. According to reports, there are a total of 467 beds earmarked for children in all these four government hospitals in the state capital. Of them, 390 beds are currently full. Similarly, 140 children have been admitted to hospitals in Muzaffarpur in the past 24 hours although 230 children are already undergoing treatment in two prominent hospitals in the district. Another 50 children are undergoing treatment in Bhagalpur medical college against the total bed capacity of 70, indicating the gravity of the situation, officials said. Doctors said the majority of the children admitted to the hospitals suffer from fever, cough, cold, breathlessness, and pneumonia. Prominent child specialist Dr. Gopal Shankar Sahani who is posted at the Srikrishna Medical College and Hospital (SKMCH) in Muzaffarpur said the viral fever could be the variants of the COVID-19.According to health officials, currently, nine districts are in the grip of viral fever. They include Gopalganj, Saran, Siwan, Buxur, Kamiur, Vaishali, Jehanabad, Nawada, and Rohtas. In Saran, three girl children have died in the past four days.
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Sample testing ordered to find out which variant of is infecting her
Published: September 07, 2021 20:25Lata Rani, Correspondent
Patna: Medical fraternity in Bihar is worried after a young doctor posted with a prominent government hospital got infected with COVID-19 virus twice despite being fully vaccinated.
Health officials said the young assistant professor in gynaecology oncology currently working with Patna’s Indira Gandhi Institute of Medical Sciences (IGIMS) was vaccinated in January and March this year. But since then, she has tested positive for coronavirus twice, alarming the health authorities.
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According to the health authorities, the said doctor first got infected in May during the second wave of the COVID-19 and now, she is again infected. The doctor tested positive for coronavirus on Monday, prompting the authorities to go for contact tracing.
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Okieman Comment: What is concerning here is that in all likelyhood the first infection was the Delta variant since it was what was causing the wave in May. So, is this second infection something new or different? Meanwhile, there is a surge of Covid/Flu like viral fever cases in Bihar, with lots of children being hospitalized. Below is an article concerning that.
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Many Bihar districts in grip of viral fever
Manoj Chaurasia | Patna | September 8, 2021 12:33 am
Even as the people still remain in the grip of panic owing to the prediction of a possible third wave of COVID-19, viral fever has gripped many districts of Bihar, leaving the masses further alarmed. What is worrying, however, is that the majority of the victims are children. The viral fever has claimed at least three lives of children so far while hundreds of them have been admitted to various hospitals across the state. The situation is such that all beds for children in most of the government hospitals, such as the Patna Medical College and Hospital (PMCH), Nalanda Medical College and Hospital (NMCH), Indira Gandhi Institute of Medical Sciences (IGIMS) and All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) in Patna is fully occupied. According to reports, there are a total of 467 beds earmarked for children in all these four government hospitals in the state capital. Of them, 390 beds are currently full. Similarly, 140 children have been admitted to hospitals in Muzaffarpur in the past 24 hours although 230 children are already undergoing treatment in two prominent hospitals in the district. Another 50 children are undergoing treatment in Bhagalpur medical college against the total bed capacity of 70, indicating the gravity of the situation, officials said. Doctors said the majority of the children admitted to the hospitals suffer from fever, cough, cold, breathlessness, and pneumonia. Prominent child specialist Dr. Gopal Shankar Sahani who is posted at the Srikrishna Medical College and Hospital (SKMCH) in Muzaffarpur said the viral fever could be the variants of the COVID-19.According to health officials, currently, nine districts are in the grip of viral fever. They include Gopalganj, Saran, Siwan, Buxur, Kamiur, Vaishali, Jehanabad, Nawada, and Rohtas. In Saran, three girl children have died in the past four days.
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