New Delhi: A third phase of the lethal novel coronavirus pandemic is inevitable, claimed Ok Vijay Raghavan, the Principal Scientific Advisor to the Government of India on Wednesday (May 5).
Addressing a press convention, Raghavan stated, “A third wave is sort of inevitable given the upper ranges of circulating virus within the nation. However, it isn’t clear on what time scale this phase three will happen. We ought to prepare for new waves,” ANI quoted him as saying.
Shedding gentle on the transmission of the new strains of the an infection he stated, “Variants are transmitted same as original strain. It doesn’t have properties of new kinds of transmission. It infects humans in a manner that makes it more transmissible as it gains entry, makes more copies and goes on, same as original.”Â
Raghavan asserted that the vaccines are efficient in opposition to the new COVID-19 strains as properly. “Vaccines are effective against current variants. New variants will arise all over the world and in India too but variants that increase transmission will likely plateau. Immune evasive variants and those which lower or increase disease severity will arise going ahead.”Â
Further, he stated, “Scientists of India and all over world are working to anticipate these kinds of variants and act against them rapidly by early warning and developing modified tools. It’s an intense research program, happening in India and abroad.”
