Chief Scientist of the World Health Organisation Dr Soumya Swaminathan has said that Covid-19 in India may be entering some kind of stage of endemicity where there is low or moderate level of transmission going on.
In an interview to journalist Karan Thapar for news website The Wire, Swaminathan said given the size of India and heterogeneity of population and immunity status in different parts of the country, it is “very very feasible” that the situation may continue like this with ups and downs in various parts of the nation.
The endemic stage is when a population learns to live with a virus. It’s very different from the epidemic stage when the virus overwhelms a population.