Preventing another peak

State govts must be more vigilant during festivities

The committee of scientists appointed by the Union government’s Department of Science and Technology in June to construct a forecasting model for the spread of the novel coronavirus has suggested that the pandemic has reached a peak in India in September. If precautionary measures are retained, the committee suggests, the pandemic would be largely brought under control by February next year. The notion that the spread of the virus has reached its first peak in India has also been put forward by government officials, and seems to be broadly reflected in the national aggregate figures for new infections and recoveries.