India s adds 45,892 more covid cases, 817 deaths
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July 8, 2021
New Delhi, July 8: India s added 45,892 new Covid-19 infections rose on Thursday with 817 more deaths in the last 24 hours, according to data from Union Health Ministry.
The country s death toll is now 4,05,028 and 44,291 recoveries have been reported in the past 24 hours.
The active cases, 1.50 per cent of the total cases, stand at 4,60,704, while the total caseload is now at 3,07,09,557.
India s weekly positivity rate is at 2.37 per cent.
Under the government s vaccination drive, 36,48,47,549 have been inoculated so far.
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‘Disease will become endemic in future’
Cases of COVID-19 might be declining steadily but as the virus is mutating, attaining that magical zero figure in Delhi is unlikely, experts said, and predicted that the disease will be reduced to an endemic in the future.
The Centre, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and his Cabinet colleague Satyendar Jain had said last year that one will have to learn to live with COVID-19 and “make its prevention norms a part of our lives”.
Medical director of LNJP Hospital Suresh Kumar said there will always be a few cases of the virus. “Zero is an unlikely figure. The virus is mutating and it is difficult to predict its future behaviour,” he said.
However, as the virus is mutating, attaining that magical zero figure in Delhi is unlikely.
New Delhi: Cases of COVID-19 might be declining steadily but as the virus is mutating, attaining that magical zero figure in Delhi is unlikely, experts have said and predicted that coronavirus will be reduced to an endemic in the future. Zero is an unlikely figure. The virus is mutating and it is difficult to predict its future behaviour, he said.
Explaining why the virus has posed such a challenge, Dr Sanjeev K. Singh, Resident Medical Director, Amrita Hospitals in Faridabad said it is an mRNA virus that keeps changing its structure.