The current Covid-19 surge in India may begin to start ebbing 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 that best guess estimates from a number of models put this somewhere between the middle and end of the month. "Some models predict second wave going out in early June. Based on what we are seeing now, middle to end of May would be a reasonable estimate,” she said.
The first Indian woman scientist to be elected a Fellow of the Royal Society also dispelled doubts over the efficacy of the two vaccines 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.