India might be entering the endemic stage of Covid-19, says WHO
Chief Scientist of WHO says that India might be entering the endemic stage of Covid-19.
On Wednesday, chief scientist of the World Health Organization (WHO) Dr Soumya Swaminathan said, "India might be entering the endemic stage of the coronavirus pandemic (Covid-19). In an interview, she said, "We may be entering some kind of stage of endemicity where there is low level transmission or moderate level transmission going on but we are not seeing the kinds of exponential growth and peaks that we saw a few months ago."
Further she told reporters, "As far as India is concerned that seems to be what is happening and because of the size of India and heterogeneity of population and immunity status in different parts of country in different pockets, it is very very feasible that the situation may continue like this with ups and downs in different parts of the country, particularly where there are more susceptible population, so those groups who were perhaps less affected by first and second waves or those areas with low levels of vaccine coverage we could see peaks and troughs for the next several months."
