The NCOV dropped sharply after the catastrophic outbreak made Indians confidently in a new normal life, but the Delta strain still spreads.

This week, researchers said the first time since May, the basic infection coefficient (R0) in some Indian states has risen to level 1, ie the average of 10 cases will spread

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The number of new daily infections in India recently sometimes up to more than 40,000, with the epidemic of Kerala, the state in the south was praised by globally thanks to good pandemic processing in the first wave last year.

Nearby states are Karnataka and Tamil Nadu asking people from Kerala to produce negative test results with NCOV at checkpoints between states.

According to Niha Masih and Gerry Shih commentators of Washington Post, this movement shows the challenges that Indian scientists and officials face in the restraint of Delta transformation, first appeared in the country

People queuing Vaccine Covid-19 in a residential area in Mumbai City, India, on August 2.

Compared to a peak of more than 414,000 cases a day two months ago, NCOV infections in India fell sharply.

Regardless of what reason is, the fact shows that the Delta transformation is still indian.

In other places in the world, Delta's transformation is also a problem.

Delta differs from previous virus strains.

The more concern about the transformation of the Delta is increasing when looking at India's vaccination campaign.

Meanwhile, a research result in the UK shows that if only injecting a dose of Pfizer or Astrazeneca vaccine, the level of efficiency before the Delta transformation is much lower than other strains.

Senthil Karuppiah, who heads to Covid-19 response at Rajaji Hospital in Madurai City, Tamil Nadu, said his hospital was injected thousands of doses of Vaccine Covid-19 at the peak period at the beginning of the year, but working

This is an emergency situation.

Vice Minister of Health India Bharati Pawar recently said the estimated production capacity for two domestic Covid-19 vaccines is 147.5 million doses per month, much lower than the amount needed to achieve goals

Washington Post comments that the war with the Delta transformation in India will bring lessons to other countries that are struggling because of this persistent virus.

Rajendra Bhosale, officials in the Maharashtra state, said nearly 9,000 cases of NCOV were recorded in May were children, equivalent to 10% of the total number of cases, but mostly had symptoms.

This seems to be the cause of promoting discussions in India about whether to re-open the elementary school has been closed over 15 months.

However, Giridhar Babu, an epidemiologist of the Indian Public Health Organization in Bangalore, warns they will have to live with this strain despite or not.

Meanwhile, Ashish Jha, the principal of the American Brown University Community Health School, said it was difficult to predict the moment and how the wave of the epidemic continued to attack India.

Much of India is still vulnerable.