India's aims of obtaining herd immunity look bleaker, with the country not even hitting it's infection peak, according to the ICMR's sero survey. Hence, it would be hard to pin a date on the end of India's coronavirus pandemic.
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Coronaviruses infect animals, humans, and birds. Human coronaviruses, such as SARS, MERS, and 2019-nCoV cause respiratory distress and even death. The S protein is the infectious agent of the virus.
‘India aims to obtain herd immunity look bleaker, with the country not even hitting its infection peak. Hence, it would be hard to pin a date on the end of India's coronavirus pandemic.
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"Natural population immunity or Herd immunity is not an alternative. Let's put our energy, workforce, focus, actions into what works," stated Maria Van Kerkhove, WHO's COVID-19 Technical Lead. Harsh Vardhan remarked that the first sero-survey conducted by the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) in May reported that the nationwide prevalence of COVID-19 infection was only 0.73 percent. "Even the soon-to-be-released second serosurvey indicates that we are far from having achieved any kind of herd immunity, which requires that all of us should continue following COVID-appropriate behavior," he added.
On the emerging evidence that the disease impacts the lungs and other organ systems, too, particularly cardiovascular and renal, the Minister reported that the Union Health Ministry has already set up experts' committees to look into these facets.
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The Minister also notified that he had spoken privately to several state Health Ministers about the reduction of prices of testing in their respective states.
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