India can turn away the third wave of Covid if the public authority takes solid measures, K VijayRaghavan, Principal Scientific Advisor to Center said on Friday.
“In the event that we (India) take solid measures, the third wave may not occur in every one of the spots or undoubtedly anyplace by any stretch of the imagination. It relies much upon how adequately the direction is carried out at the nearby level, in the states, in areas, and the urban communities all over the place,” the Principal Scientific Advisor said in a press preparation on Friday.
The present comments were a stage down from prior when VijayRaghavan expressed, “Stage 3 is inescapable, given the significant levels at which this infection is coursing. In any case, it isn’t clear at what time scale this Phase 3 will happen.”
In the interim, Arti Ahuja, Additional Secretary, Ministry of Health said that states like Maharashtra, Uttar Pradesh, Delhi, Rajasthan, Chhattisgarh, Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, Telangana, and Jharkhand have begun to show a restricted decrease in every day Covid-19 cases as of late.
In a media instructions, Ahuja said, “Maharashtra, Uttar Pradesh, Delhi, Rajasthan, Chhattisgarh, Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, Telangana, and Jharkhand are the states/UTs where cases were expanding prior however are currently leveling slowly”.
In any case, states like Punjab, Jammu and Kashmir, Assam, Himachal Pradesh, Puducherry, Meghalaya, Tripura, Arunachal Pradesh, and Nagaland have started to show an increment in pattern in day by day Covid cases, Ahuja added.
As of now, 12 states and association regions have more than one lakh dynamic cases. These include: Maharashtra (641,281); Karnataka ( 517,095); Kerala (391,251), Uttar Pradesh ( 259.844); Rajasthan ( 198,101), Andhra Pradesh (182,329); Gujarat (147,525); Tamil Nadu (131,468); Chhattisgarh (131,245); West Bengal (122,774); Haryana (115,842), and Bihar (115,152).
