NEW DELHI : Dr N.K. Arora, chairman of the government’s covid-19 working group of the National Technical Advisory Group on Immunization (NTAGI) said the disease is taking a shape of normal influenza.
His comments, made in an interview, came even as 1,276 Indians died of covid-19 in the last 28 days, according to the Johns Hopkins tracker.
According to Arora, India is moving to a situation wherein people can start going back to their normal routine. Arora said that more than 75% of hospitalizations with covid are of people who have not taken the booster dose.
He said Gennova Pharma’s mRNA vaccine and Bharat Biotech’s nasal vaccine will be out soon. Edited excerpts: Covid cases are constantly going up and down.