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Health Body Chief: Covid may become more manageable in 6 months
Will Covid become endemic in India? Well, it will in the next six months. A top expert has said it asserting that a new variant can’t alone bring a third wave of infections.
“This pandemic has defied most of our predictions but in the next six months, we will approach endemic status,” Sujeet Singh, the Director of the National Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) told NDTV in an exclusive interview.
“If the mortality and morbidity is under control, then we can manage the disease,” he said.
He added that Kerala, which had a large susceptible pool, is also emerging from the raging Covid crisis it was battling a few weeks ago.
“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 immunised,” he said.