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Noida health department on alert over H3N2 virus

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Noida’s health department has been put on high alert due to the ongoing spread of the new N3N2 virus in the country. The decision has been taken after Haryana and Karnataka has confirmed 1 H3N2 influenza death in both states. Due to this, the Union Health Ministry has urged every state to be on high alert. 

As per the statement of Dr Sunil Sharma, chief medical officer of Gautam Budh Nagar, this virus has no specific guidelines from the state health department along with the protocol to deal with the patients showing the H3N2 virus symptoms. Same the doctors used for Covid will be followed. 

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“The strategy for treating patients with symptoms consistent with the H3N2 virus, such as flu-like symptoms, high fever, persistent cough, and acute respiratory issues, remains the same as the one adopted for Covid-19 patients. This means that such patients will also be subjected to testing, contact tracing, and treatment protocols. The district health department is on high alert in such cases, despite the fact that no separate guidelines have been issued by the state health department on the subject thus far,” stated Sharma on Saturday.

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Dr Amit Kumar, the district surveillance officer, influenza antigen tests will be performed on those who are showing signs of influenza-like symptoms (ILI).

“The health department is equipped with sufficient influenza antigen test kits to test patients presenting ILI symptoms. To determine whether a case is of the H3N2 variant, samples will be sent to higher medical institutes in Meerut and Lucknow for genome sequencing. The district health department has yet to send any such samples for analysis.”

 He further added- “Isolation wards, NICU (neonatal intensive care unit) and integrated command control centre that were set up for Covid patients earlier will also be put in use if cases of influenza rise in the district. The district health department is keeping an eye out for cases of ILI and Severe Acute Respiratory Infections (SARI) that present in city OPDs and IPDs. So far, no such case has been reported in Gautam Budh Nagar,” said Kumar.

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