Prevention best way to fight Covid: Expert

Srinagar, April 19

Noted pulmonologist Dr Naveed Nazir Shah, superintendent of Srinagar’s chest disease hospital, has urged people to take all possible precautions to check the Covid spread and to ensure that the situation does not get out of control.

He said prevention was the best way to fight the virus. He said it was a matter of satisfaction that people had started wearing masks and taking precautions. “Out of 100 beds available for Covid patients at our hospital, nearly 90% are already occupied. Oxygen facility is available for all the indoor patients and ventilators are also available as back-up. We have 50 more beds available at the Srinagar nursing home as a back-up facility. We are advising people with mild symptoms to remain in home isolation so that those who are with severe symptoms can get access to oxygen and other in-patient facilities,” he said.

About the efficacy of the vaccine, he said though there were instances when people contracted Covid even after taking the second shot of vaccines, but the severity in such cases was very less which is significant. “Further, vaccines take about three weeks to become effective and even after that the protection is not 100 per cent,” he added. — IANS