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Endemic far from reach : IMA says as India battles new Covid-19 wave
The apex association observed that political leaders are making unsubstantiated claims about the Covid-19 status
Monday March 8, 2021 8:31 PM, IANS
New Delhi: The Indian Medical Association (IMA) on Monday condemned the latest narrative developing around the Covid-19 disease in the political sphere in which leaders are attributing the fallen trajectory of positive cases to a situation of an endemic .
This is amid a state when resurgence of cases are witnessed in more than half a dozen states including Punjab, Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, Delhi etc.
What is endemic?
An infection is said to be endemic in a population when it is constantly maintained at a baseline level in a geographic area without external inputs.