95% hit by virus recovered at home in Gujarat: Study

AHMEDABAD: About 95% of the people in a study who had tested Covid-19 positive have recovered after taking home treatment. These people were covered in the recent study by Gujarat Technological University.
The university conducted 2,368 RT-PCR tests for the diagnosis of Covid-19 over a period of three months. Of these, 1,127 tests returned positive results while eight of these patients lost their lives. The study also surveyed people who took vaccination before being tested for Covid-19. “About 54% of the people who were administered the vaccine did not test positive for Covid-19,” the survey said.

This means that a large number of people, comprising about 47% of those who tested positive, had received at least one dose of vaccination.
“But they all had mild infections and have recovered,” according to GTU vice-chancellor Navin Sheth. The details of these tests were analyzed by a survey team headed by Dr Vaibhav Bhatt who is also the head of the Atal Incubation Centre which is assisting the lab in various tests.
The university’s bio-safety lab, set up as a part of the Atal Incubation Centre, was granted approval to conduct Covid-19 tests in February. The Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) had cleared the decks for GTU to conduct RT-PCR tests for Covid-19 diagnosis.
In a statement, Sheth said it has been established that vaccination was the need of the hour. The results have shown that 94.74% of the patients were cured by home isolation treatment; the majority of the tested people, 99.29%, beat corona.
About 5.26% of the people had to be admitted to hospitals following complications, the statement said. The highest number of positive cases were 44.99% in the age group of 21 years to 40 years. About 31.14% of the infections were in the age group of 41 to 60 years.
In the second wave of corona, young people have been more prone to getting the disease. In the age group of 10 years and below, 2.31% were found infected; while in the age group of 11 to 20, the figure was 10.65%. People above the age of 60 years comprised 10.91% of the total found infected in the survey.
After March 20, the rate of positive cases was seen to be steadily increasing. The first two weeks of April saw a jump of more than 60%. This has recently seen a decline of 50%, the statement said.