Is the coronavirus pandemic finally slowing down in India?
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00:00The worst is definitely over and it's just a matter of time before I think total normal life will restart.
00:08We cannot really say that people have actually acquired herd immunity in India or elsewhere in the world with absolute assurance.
00:16One did not know whether one would come back from that situation but I can now see that this was a passing phase.
00:37The worst is definitely over and it's just a matter of time before I think total normal life will restart.
00:45The worst is definitely over and it's just a matter of time before I think total normal life will restart.
00:55If you take the All India picture, post-September the transmission has come down partly because the susceptibles are either already exposed or are better protected.
01:08We cannot really say that people have actually acquired herd immunity in India or elsewhere in the world with absolute assurance.
01:18We cannot really say that people have actually acquired herd immunity in India or elsewhere in the world with absolute assurance.
01:28We cannot really say that people have actually acquired herd immunity in India or elsewhere in the world with absolute assurance.
01:41It is a combination of factors that gives us the population immunity but not this concept of herd immunity which as I said is very nebulous.
01:58As far as our country is concerned, we have actually now entered a much safer zone.
02:25However, the danger still lurks around the corner.
02:55However, the danger still lurks around the corner.
03:25If the mutants enter and they start rising in numbers and particularly other susceptible sections of our population who have not been infected so far or have not been vaccinated so far get affected, then we can still have a sudden spike in the cases.
03:56In rural areas, the transmission rates are in any case low and we are two-thirds rural.
04:03That is something that we must keep reminding ourselves.
04:25We still need to protect ourselves and hope that with a combination of immunity that's been acquired by the natural infection, by the immunity that's been conferred by the vaccine and the continued adherence to public health precautions,
04:52we will be able to prevent the transmission of the virus.