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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | COVID-19 surge may taper off by end of May, says virologist Gagandeep Kang -Sudha Vemuri

COVID-19 surge may taper off by end of May, says virologist Gagandeep Kang -Sudha Vemuri

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published Published on May 5, 2021   modified Modified on May 6, 2021

-The Hindu

She stresses on the protection that vaccines can offer against disease

The current COVID-19 surge in India may begin to start tapering between the middle and end of May, virologist Gagandeep Kang said on Wednesday.

At a virtual interaction with members of the Indian Women Press Corps, Dr. Kang said, “Best guess estimates from a number of models put this somewhere between the middle and end of the month. Some models have it [second wave] going out in early June. Based on what we are seeing now, middle to end of May would be a reasonable estimate.”

The first Indian woman scientist to be elected a Fellow of the Royal Society also dispelled doubts over the efficacy of the two vaccines — Covishield and Covaxin — currently available in India and said more options would be available soon.

“The vaccines offer lot of protection against disease, severe disease; good protection against disease and some protection against infection. If you are protected against infection, you also don’t transmit to the next person. So the vaccines are working very well against severe disease and death,” said Dr. Kang, adding that they may not prevent infection but definitely decrease infection.

Dr. Kang attributed the second surge to the virus spreading among two segments which escaped the COVID-19 wrath last year – the middle class and the rural population.

Sharing data from Our World in Data, she said the size of the peak that is seen now is three-and-a-half to four times seen earlier. “The likelihood is that when we begin to see a decline, it will also be reasonably rapid as the virus would have had the opportunity to burn through the population,” she said.

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The Hindu, 5 May, 2021, https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/covid-19-surge-may-taper-off-by-the-month-end-says-virologist-gagandeep-kang/article34492127.ece?homepage=true


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