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To India next, where COVID cases and restrictions related to that are both on the rise. The world's largest democracy whose population is approaching 1.4 billion people is going through several coronavirus related challenges.
One is fatigue, when people get tired of restrictions and the guidance to wear masks and keep their distance from one another. So they're less willing to follow guidelines. A second issue is the large religious gatherings currently taking place in the country. Experts are concerned those can trigger more COVID cases. And a third challenge is new variants of coronavirus. New versions that crop up when a disease naturally mutates.
Experts don't know yet whether existing coronavirus vaccines protect people against new coronavirus variants though at least one of these vaccines is showing promise. Doctors are also unsure about how long vaccine protection lasts against COVID. The drugs haven't been out long enough for there to be long term studies on them but vaccine makers are experimenting with booster shots intended to give people additional protection.
Doctors are concerned that COVID could become like the flu for which there's a new vaccine every year because the flu mutates so quickly and immunity wears off quickly as well. Time will tell what's next concerning the fight against COVID but in India, at least, its spread has ramped up again.
