Covid wave looms as India's population-level immunity wanes

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Covid wave looms as India's population-level immunity wanes

Decreasing levels of immunity in our population may trigger new Covid waves and to tackle this

India needs a strong disease surveillance along with high vaccine coverage, WHO Regional Director, South-East Asia, Dr Poonam Khetrapal Singh has stressed.

India is currently seeing a surge in Covid cases, to levels last seen during the Omicron wave in early 2022.

India on Saturday recorded 6,155 fresh Covid-19 infections, while the number of active cases increased to 31,194, according to the Health Ministry data.

Daily cases have crossed the 6,000-mark for the first time since September 16 last year.

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