COVID's disappearance or 100 percent vaccine rollout: Doctors argue on phenomenon to occur first

Jaipur:  Amid the dwindling Covid-19 numbers and the extensive preparations for the roll-out of the coronavirus vaccine in India, the medical experts are discussing the million-dollar question: which phenomenon will emerge first, the natural disappearance of the virus or the total vaccination for containing the virus.

A total of 16,311 new coronavirus cases have been reported in the last 24 hours in India, the lowest in around six-and-half months.

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Also, a total of 161 more fatalities have been reported in India which is the lowest in the last seven-and-half-months, the Union Health Ministry's data showed.

In fact, the Covid figures since the last many days are touching a new low in India which signifies the reducing impact of the virus.

Virendra Singh, a senior medical practitioner quoted the 2002-2004 SARS outbreak and said: "The SARS (severe acute respiratory syndrome) came up in 2002 and made a strong impact in the far East nations. However, slowly, it vanished in 2004 on its own. In many far East countries, its spread was quite strong but its disappearance was also sudden. It was also called as SARS-COV-1, which was more like an elder brother to SARS Covid 2. So 'both brothers' might have some similar features and in this perspective, it can disappear on its own."