NEW DELHI: Vaccines Plus variant, and isolated people and vaccination has been initiated for these people and district level test positivity rate is posted on the health ministry website,” he said.
Data needs to clearly monitored by districts to ensure if the rate is going beyond five per cent, the ICMR chief said.
“Then we need to impose strict restrictions and that is the most important point that will guide us through the pandemic,” he added.
Bhargava said public health prevention strategies do not change with variants.
“Covid appropriate behaviour and vaccination has to continue but continuous monitoring of mutations is important to track vaccine escape, increased transmissibility and disease severity.
The next step is, if need be, vaccine composition can be changed as per the circulating variants of interest and variants of concern that can also be done with RNA vaccines and adenovirus-based vaccine can also be modified,” he said.
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