Festive season is here. Experts urge caution against virus

Doctors say wrong belief among people that vaccination makes them immune to infection and gatherings may drive infections up amid lax restrictions.

It’s 8am at Samakhusi on Janai Purnima, also known as Rakshya Bandhan, on Sunday. An awareness message about Covid-19 is repeating on a loudspeaker at the Metropolitan Police Circle saying ‘don’t come out of your homes, maintain a distance of at least two metres from people, wear a mask, don’t cause crowding....’