While its caseload is a fraction of what the U.S. is seeing, India has only vaccinated 63% of its adults, children just started getting jabs this week, and nobody has had a booster shot yet.
While many nations are grappling with an Omicron surge, generally the U.S. and Europe have a much higher rate of vaccinations, including booster shots, to help ward off the worst of the wave.
"The U.K. has about 70% of its population fully vaccinated, and more than 30% boosted by mRNA vaccine, which stimulates a better antibody response," explained Dr Kant."India has much lower vaccination numbers and no booster dose yet… besides, a higher population density in Indian cities and suburban areas is likely to drive the numbers of infected upwards.
"The combination of past exposure, climbing vaccination coverage rates and low reported severity of Omicron infections should hopefully result in a more muted problem than we saw during the second wave," Laxminarayan told CBS News. "I don't believe that lockdowns are warranted this time around, or will even be effective since the Omicron variant is highly transmissible," Laxminarayan told CBS News.
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