New Delhi, 13/4: There have been growing concerns across India with Covid-19 increasing again after a lull of months, but health officials say that this is not a worrying trend.
Government officials told The Times of India that Covid-19 cases will continue to rise for 10-12 days and will start falling after that. They added that hospitalisation, despite rising cases, has remained low and will continue to be so. However, experts have suggested the use of masks again.
Even as India reported over 10,000 coronavirus cases on Thursday, the highest in eight months, officials told TOI that the virus has now reached the endemic stage. When a virus is endemic, it means that it is consistently present but localised in a region, making it much easier to predict and manage the spread of infection.
Endemic viruses also generate many variants. For instance, Omicron, which was detected first in 2021, has over 1,000 sub-lineages.
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