Excelsior Correspondent
Srinagar, Apr 7: With Kashmir valley facing second wave of Covid-19, Doctors Association Kashmir (DAK) today warned that the new wave could be worse than the first.
In a statement issued here, Dr Nisar ul Hassan said that the second wave of pandemic might be harsher.
“We have witnessed in the past how second wave of 1918 Spanish flu pandemic was deadlier than the first one. The first wave occurred in the spring which was relatively mild. A far deadlier second wave erupted in the fall months which infected 500 million and killed 50 million people globally,” he said.
He said that Kashmir is currently under the grip of a second wave and the cases are rising and hospitalizations too and if countermeasures are not put in place, we could end up having a situation which could be worse than what we saw last year.
He said that it is because vast majority of people in the valley are still susceptible to the virus and the virus will go where it is given room to run.
“People have got pandemic fatigue. They are tired of restrictions, wearing masks, being away from family and friends, and increasingly fed up with the new normal routines,” he said.
He said that people should not take much comfort from the fact that so far in the second wave, the incidents of severe cases and deaths are considerably lower than the first spike.
“The second wave is infecting young people in larger proportion than the first one and, after a couple of weeks, many of them are likely to infect the elder members of their family and when that happens, serious illnesses and deaths will go up,” said Dr Nisar.
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