50 PERCENT OF INDIAN POPULATION MAY GET INFECTED FROM COVID 19 BY DECEMBER 20202 :NIMHANS NEUROVIROLOGY HEAD
BANGALURU : There will be a spike in covid 19 cases after the lockdown4.0 will end warned dr v ravi ,head of neurovirology national institute of mental heath and neurosciences and nodal officer in Karnataka health task force for covid 19. our country has till not not witnessed the spike in the cases.the numbers will be go up from june and the end of 4.0 lockdown there will be a community spread. By december this year half of indian population may get infected with the virus but best part will be that mostly like 90 % of them will not know that they are infected . only 5% of the cases that will have to be treated with adequate high flow oxygen and nearly same would require ventilator support. when the lockdown will be lifted ,it is important that states have to be fully geared up with medical necessities to handle increased in case especially those which will required intensive care and vantilators. To prepare the states to handle the covid the ICMR under the