Pune: There is no Coronavirus variant that has just appeared in the past six months, but constant vigil is a must, Dr.
NK Arora, a member of the National Task Force and Chair of the Covid-19 Working Group of the National Technical Advisory Group on immunization, told toi.
“Against the background there is no new variant in the past six months, the increasing infrastructure in India and an enthusiastic immunization program, there must be a strict Covid discipline in front and during the festival,” he said, emphasizing effectively following Covid – which fits the behavior and gets every adults are vaccinated.
Arora, Chair of the Covid-19 Working Group of the National Technical Advisory Group on immunization (Ntagi), ruled out any shortcomings of vaccines.
He said the country would have around 90 doses of crore available in the next three months.
“More vaccines will be added to various vaccines available in this country,” he said.
He said the future course of each wave will depend on vaccination, the appropriate behavior of Covid, the percentage of the population exposed to a natural infection during the second wave and of course, the possibility of the emergence of a new variant.
He said the preparedness of the health system was an important part of the war against the increasing cases in the future.
He said, “Covid vaccine is very effective in preventing serious diseases for the current variant.
They may be effective in future variants as well.
Active efforts in terms of producers to modify vaccines for interested variants.” Express concerns over the lack of data on the effectiveness of the current vaccine In the variant, Virologically Dr.
Gagandeep Kang, a member of the Covid-19 working group and a professor in Christian Medical College, Vellore, “without data, it is very difficult to do it to do how our vaccine works against the variant or to think about what needs to be done for booster.”