Covid has entered endemic phase in India, says expert | India News - Rashtra News : Rashtra News #Covid #entered #endemic #phase #India #expert #India #News #Times #India NEW DELHI: The chances of a third Covid-19 wave appear remote under the “present circumstances” with only the Delta and its derivatives as the main SARS-CoV-2 variants
Seventeen districts in India, including seven from Kerala and five from Mizoram, are reporting a weekly COVID-19 positivity rate of more than 10 percent.
Noted virologist T Jacob John said the present increase in cases is not like a surge but a gradual increase that is not steady or uniformly distributed.
Omicron is a "deviant" from the Covid-19 pandemic progression script and so it must be postulated that two pandemics are going on side by side, one by the Delta and close relatives and the other by the latest variant of concern, said noted virologist Dr T Jacob John. Speaking to PTI on how the pandemic can now be expected to progress, he pointed out that Omicron is not