The most recent wave of Covid-19 cases in the South Asian subcontinent are trickier to negotiate because of an increase in dengue, a mosquito-transmitted virus. The spike in dengue cases is worsening the load of hospitals that are already over-burdened. For instance Sri Lanka reported
The World Health Organization today called upon countries in WHO South-East Asia Region to scale up and rigorously implement public health and social measures, along with efforts to accelerate vaccination for COVID-19, to prevent another surge, as more countries confirmed prevalence of highly transmissible variants
