Vadodara fights its way off first Covid-19 peak

Vadodara: The city seems to have braved the first onslaught of Covid-19 pandemic. Apart from new cases, the number of active cases, including those in serious conditions, have gone down significantly.
After making a peak of 135 new cases on September 19, the number of new cases reported every day had started going down significantly. But the concern for active cases remained as the number maintained a rise consistently till October 11 after which it started to trickle down.
Another major concern was the rise in the number of patients on ventilators or BIPAP machines, but even these showed a downward trend after October 10.
Sources in the Vadodara Municipal Corporation (VMC) said that with ventilators and BIPAPs now vacant, patients, who may not be in dire need of one, too were often put on non-invasive ventilators or BIPAPs for better utility of unused machines.
“The downward trend has now sustained for almost a month and we can safely say that the city is off the peak. The pattern in the rural areas of the district is very different and the numbers there may not go down soon. But the overall number of new cases in the district will reflect the same trend as a bulk of the cases were from the city,” said an official.
The administration, however, is in no hurry to reduce the number of beds for Covid-19 treatment. The situation in some countries in the west and even in Delhi where there was a second wave was a distinct possibility even in Vadodara in the coming days, sources said