Govt: Virus will find new pathways, curbs the key

Tribune News Service

New Delhi, May 13

The Centre on Thursday said the virus would ultimately go to villages as its natural course was to look for vulnerable populations to infect.

VK Paul, who leads the government’s Covid response team, said, “The virus will ultimately go to the villages. Finding new transmission pathways, when it does not find enough people to infect in cities, it will travel to villages. Containment is the key.” Paul also said while it was known that the second wave would come, no modelling had indicated its size.

The remarks came on a day when government data showed a plateau in daily cases and positivity rate for three days but above 15 per cent positivity rate in 24 states.

Upward trend

Punjab, Kerala, Tamil Nadu, West Bengal, HP, Odisha, Assam, Puducherry & Manipur

On the Decline

Maha, UP, Karnataka, Haryana, JK, Chandigarh and Ladakh