Himanshu Sikka, Lead- Health, Nutrition & WASH, IPE Global said that Creating herd immunity will need at least 50-60% of world population getting infected, so that will also take time. Vaccine is also at best 18-24 month away. Even when vaccine is available reach and administration will have challenges.
Himanshu Sikka, lead-health, nutrition and WASH at IPE Global mentioned that Past surveillance-focused experience with elimination of small pox and polio would come handy. IPE Global has worked closely with Unicef and WHO in India on polio elimination and that level of door-to-door surveillance, combined with isolation of each identified case, seems to be the […]