New Delhi:  Sujeet Singh, director of the National Centre for Disease Control said that a new variant alone cannot bring the third wave of Covid-19, which will start to become an endemic in the next six months, said in a press conference.

Stressing on the importance of vaccination in fighting the virus, Singh said that people need to follow Covid-appropriate behaviour even after getting jabbed. He also cautioned that breakthrough infections – in which fully-vaccinated people get infected – will happen in around 20 to 30 percent of cases.

He said that with 70 crore vaccinated people in the country, if the vaccine effectiveness is 70 percent, it means around 50 crore people have immunity against the virus. Since a single dose gives around 30 percent immunity, 30 crore people who have got one vaccine dose are also considered immunised, he said.