98% population still vulnerable: Govt says Covid-19 pandemic is shrinking

India's reproduction value (R) for COVID-19, which shows how fast the infection is spreading, is below one now which means that the pandemic is shrinking, the government said on Tuesday.

Addressing media, NITI Aayog member (Health) V K Paul said in many states the pandemic curve is stabilising even as it cautioned that 98 per cent of the population is still vulnerable.

He said this has happened because there is a huge containment effort in addition to managing the cases in home settings and hospitals.