AIIMS Director Randeep Guleria has stated that India may not see the third wave of coronavirus disease but it largely depends on people following Covid-appropriate behaviour.
Hence while speaking to reporters at the Gitam Institute in Visakhapatnam, Guleria noted that the only unpredictable part was how the virus behaved.
“But I don’t think that we will see a third wave which will be as bad as the second wave,” he said. Referring to apprehensions that the possible third wave could infect children more, the AIIMS chief pointed out that children would be “more susceptible” because they were not being vaccinated.
“The general feeling is that adults are getting vaccinated, children are not being vaccinated and therefore if there is a new wave it will affect those who are more susceptible. Children will be more susceptible,” he noted.
Meanwhile, according to the Maharashtra health department, five people have died from the Delta Plus variant of the coronavirus and as many as 66 cases have been detected in the state so far. The department said on Friday that a revision in the state’s Covid-19 infection tally was made after a fresh case of the Delta Plus variant was detected from the Thane district a day before.
India has reported 36,083daily new cases in the last 24 hours.Less than 50,000 Daily New Cases have been reported since forty-nine consecutive days. This is a result of sustained and collaborative efforts by the Centre and the States/UTs.
India’s Active Caseload today stands at 3,85,336. Active cases now constitute only1.20% of the country’s total Positive Cases.
With substantially ramped up testing capacity across the country, a total of 19,23,863tests were conducted in the last 24 hours in the country. Cumulatively, India has conducted over 49.36 crores (49,36,24,440) tests so far.
While on one side testing capacity has been enhanced across the country, Weekly Positivity Rate currently stands at 2.00% and the Daily Positivity rate stands at 1.88% today. The daily Positivity rate has remained below 3% for the last 20 days and below 5% for 69 consecutive days now.
Out of the people infected since the beginning of the pandemic, 3,13,76,015people have already recovered from COVID-19 and37,927patients have recovered in the last 24 hours.
