EXPLAINED: Case Count On Downward Slope, But Here's Why Govt Is Worried About Festive Impact On Covid
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EXPLAINED: Case Count On Downward Slope, But Here's Why Govt Is Worried About Festive Impact On Covid

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A lowering of guard in the run up to and during Onam celebrations in Kerala is being seen as a factor that has driven a surge of Covid-19 cases in the coastal state at a time when most parts of the country are reporting a downward trend of new infections. On August 25, the country’s Covid count of more than 46,000 cases was the first time in close to two weeks that daily numbers had gone above the 40,000 threshold. In the wake of the Kerala surge and with the rest of the country heading into the 2021 festival season, the Union Home Secretary said that states are being “advised to take suitable measures to avoid large gatherings during the coming festive season and if required, impose local restrictions with a view to curb such large gatherings”. Warning against violating Covid norms during last year’s festival season, the then Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan had said “we are far from having achieved any kind of herd immunity, which necessitates that all of us should continue following Covid-appropriate behaviour”. She had said that “it is very very feasible that the situation may continue like this with ups and downs in different parts of the country, particularly where there are more susceptible population, so those groups who were perhaps less affected by first and second waves or those areas with low levels of vaccine coverage, we could see peaks and troughs for the next several months”.

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