The Union Health Minister Dr Harsh Vardhan said on Sunday that the Indian population is still far from reaching herd immunity against COVID-19 as shown by the Indian Council of Medical Research`s (ICMR) second Sero Survey
While interacting with social media users during Sunday Samvaad-3, Dr. Vardhan said: “The findings of the second sero survey are going to be released soon. But second sero survey indications are that we are far from having achieved any kind of herd immunity which necessitates that all of us should continue following COVID appropriate behaviour. The first sero-survey of May 2020 revealed that the nationwide prevalence of novel coronavirus infection was only 0.73 percent.”
“ICMR is also actively investigating and researching reports of reinfection and although the number of reinfection cases is negligible at this moment, the government is fully seized…