Covid Pandemic in India - some useful data

In the week just past, some useful data on the Covid pandemic has emerged from the Indian Council of Medical Rsearch. The first is a clear description of the some of the typical symptoms of Covid. The ICMR study, which seems limited to just about 680 case of Covid infection, apparently found that a total of 482 cases (71%) were symptomatic with one or more symptoms, while 29% had asymptomatic, of the type "SARS-CoV-2" infection. The study indicates that fever (69%) was the most consistent presentation followed by body ache, including headache and nausea (56%), cough (45%), sore throat (37%), loss of smell and taste (22%), diarrhoea (6%), breathlessness (6%) and 1% had ocular irritation and redness. Thus, the warning signs seem to be a relatively low-intensity fever of about 100/101 deg. C for 3 or 4 days accompanied by severe body and joint pain and headache, while the other symptoms may or may not be there in any notable fashion. Obviously a larger sample population for the study would have been even more useful. The other information that has energed indicates that as of 16.07.2021, India has been able to vaccinate about 400 million persons, of whom 79 million have duly received the necessary two dozes of the vaccine.If therefore at least 75% of the total population of about 1.2 billion are to be vaccinated (including children 3/4 years or more) then in the next 5 months, the nation will have to vaccinate about 3 million people per day. That will surely call for a concerted effort. More to the point, in the meantime for the next three or four months each and all of the states will have to follow the Covid precautions rigorously, especially with respect to stricly avoiding any assembly of people, ensuring that wearing the face-mask and hand sanitization are followed scrupulously.