: Interview: It’s too soon to say that India’s second Covid-19 wave has ended #IndiaNEWS The second wave of Covid-19 is now abating slowly but steadily across India, with both new cases and deaths

Interview: It’s too soon to say that India’s second Covid-19 wave has ended #IndiaNEWS
The second wave of Covid-19 is now abating slowly but steadily across India, with both new cases and deaths decreasing. Unfortunately, economic output and the potential for economic growth is also continuing to fall further, hurting tens of millions of Indians across the country. The Center for Monitoring Indian Economy has told IndiaSpend recently that almost 97% of Indians are now poorer thanks to Covid-19. In this context, how can we emerge from the various lockdowns in several states and resume economic activity? Given that only about 22.3 crore Indians are partly or fully vaccinated, with the majority (80%) having received only one shot of a Covid-19 vaccine, what are the guardrails we should have in place to unlock? To understand the precautions we need to keep in mind, and what we should be doing to prepare for a potential third wave, we spoke with K Srinath Reddy, president of the Public Health Foundation of India, adjunct professor of epidemiology at Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health and former president of the World Heart Federation. Are we really reaching the end of the second wave? Or are we misinterpreting some of these early signs?From several indicators, it does appear that the second wave is subsiding. We are seeing the Covid-19 case...Read more

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