Covid may never go away, more variants in 2022: Johns Hopkins' Amita Gupta

In this interview with Business Standard’s Nivedita Mookerji, Dr Amita Gupta, faculty co-chair of the Johns Hopkins India Institute, talks about 2022 being more of the same, how the year will have more waves and that Covid will never go away. She explains how the Johns Hopkins Covid dashboard became a household name, while highlighting the weakness in the health infrastructure and data systems in many countries, including in India. According to Dr Gupta, who is also a professor of infectious diseases, Covid-19 should be seen as a wake-up call to improve things.