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‘Not a challenge’: Govt reacts to SBI’s August prediction of Covid-19 3rd wave

The Joint Secretary of Union Health Ministry Lav Agarwal, reacting to the SBI research report that the Covid-19 third wave will arrive in August and peak in the month of September stated,  "Waves are more of a post-facto analysis of what is happening in the system. Waves are the interaction between the virus and the human, Waves will come, the virus will be mutated, people will develop immunity and the impact of a wave will depend on all these factors," 

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The Joint Secretary of Union Health Ministry Lav Agarwal, reacting to the SBI research report that the Covid-19 third wave will arrive in August and peak in the month of September stated,  “Waves are more of a post-facto analysis of what is happening in the system. Waves are the interaction between the virus and the human, Waves will come, the virus will be mutated, people will develop immunity and the impact of a wave will depend on all these factors,”

He further said, “The first challenge is that we have not yet closed the second wave. And the next challenge is human behaviour — by the time a possible future wave comes at all, how much we can mitigate the impact of it through our behaviour, by maintaining social distancing, by adhering to containment rules etc., is the challenge,” Agarwal said, adding that instead of looking at a possible wave, more focus should be on immediate local-level action. “If we see Covid-19 cases are increasing at any particular area, we should be able to contain the spread of the infection by imposing immediate restrictions,”

“Instead of saying X study told this, Y study told this, what is critical is containing the infection whenever there is any surge in any part of the country,” he added.

An official report stated that India’s daily Covid-19 cases are falling gradually. North-East states are reporting a higher number of infections. Currently, there are 73 districts in the country which are reporting more than a 10 per cent test positivity rate.

In an interview the Director-general of the Indian Council of Medical Research Dr Balram Bhargava said, “Close watch on the test positivity rate should be maintained. This helped us during the second wave as well. The moment the case positivity rate reaches beyond 10 per cent, those places need to be investigated and contained.”

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