New
Delhi: Experts
in India have claimed that the Covid-19 will start endemic in the county in the
next six months as a new variant can't bring a third wave alone.
Sujeet Singh, the Director of the National Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) said that the covid pandemic has challenged most of their predictions but in the next six months it will start endemic in the county.
He said that the virus of the diseases will be present among people which can be handle easily like flu.
"If the mortality and morbidity is under control, then we can manage the disease," he said, adding that Kerala, which had a large "susceptible pool" or people vulnerable to Covid, is also emerging from the raging crisis it was battling a few weeks ago.
Dr Singh said that vaccination is the protection against the Covid.
"75 crore people have been vaccinated. If vaccine effectiveness is 70 per cent, then around 50 crore people in India have got immunity. A single dose gives 30-31% immunity. So the 30 crore people, who have received a single dose, are also immunized," he said.
He however warned people to follow all norms of Covid which is wearing of masks, maintaining distance, washing hands.
"Breakthrough infections are also because of the new variants. Scientists say within 70 to 100 days of vaccination the immunity level starts dropping," he explained.
In India the number of positive cases of Covid have been decreasing.
Earlier, Kerala on Thursday recorded 22,182 new Covid cases after 1,21,486 samples were tested in the past 24 hours, even as Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan says that things are under control. Contrary to the earlier practice of holding the daily test positivity rate as the bench mark, the official statement on the Covid situation, issued by Vijayan, doesn't have this figure since WedNew Delhi: Experts in India have claimed that the Covid-19 will start endemic in the county in the next six months as a new variant can't bring a third wave alone.
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