New Delhi: The situation continues to be grim amid growing COVID19 infection in India, in the meantime, there are many countries where the administration has allowed people to remain mask-free without taking both doses of the vaccine, but in India even after two years of COVID19, people still have masks on their mouths.
In such a situation, when the people of India will be able to become mask-free, Rajiv Sood, the dean of Atal Bihari Vajpayee Institute of Medical Sciences and senior doctor of Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital, gave information.
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Dr Sood said that in countries like America where more than half of the population has been vaccinated and herd immunity has become possible among people, they are allowed to live without masks, but not allowed in all public places. It has been allowed but only in those offices where all the people have got vaccinated.
Dr Sood said that in our country only 15 per cent of the people are vaccinated, that is, only 18 crore people out of the total population are vaccinated, so it can not be allowed to live without a mask, until half of the population do not get vaccinated, for which it may take up to December.
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Dr Sood said that there is a need to increase vaccination in the country at a rapid pace. The sooner people get the vaccine, the sooner the people will get herd immunity and after which people can be allowed to live without masks. At the same time, when 60 to 70 per cent of the population gets vaccinated, then the risk of spreading infection will be reduced.
Along with this, he told that there is a need to increase the imports of the vaccine so that people can get the vaccine as soon as possible.
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