NEW DELHI : Indian government and health authorities say India will not witness a fresh wave of covid, unlike China, which they claim has not developed herd immunity.
This comes even as the government admits that 88% of adults in the 18-59 age group are yet to receive their booster jabs. India logged 6,809 new infections and 26 fatalities in the last 24 hours.
Top Indian scientists and public health experts said a large part of India’s population has already been exposed to the Omicron variant during the third wave, and have developed hybrid immunity by vaccination, booster doses and natural infection, which has not been the case in China.
Indian scientists said that since the onset of covid-19 pandemic, China has followed a strategy of strict non-pharmacological interventions such as lockdowns; hence, their hybrid immunity is not so strong.