3rd wave of Covid-19 in India inevitable: Top scientific advisor to govt
As India continues to struggle to contain a severe second wave of Covid-19, a top scientific advisor to the government today said a third wave was "inevitable" and the authorities should be prepared for it.
"A phase three is inevitable given the higher levels of circulating virus but it is not clear on what time scale this phase three will occur. We should prepare for new waves," K Vijay Raghavan, Principal Scientific Advisor to the Indian government, Centre told the media, our New Delhi correspondent reports.
He said variants of the virus are transmitted the same way as the original strain. "It doesn't have properties of new kinds of transmission. It infects humans in a manner that makes it more transmissible as it gains entry, makes more copies and goes on, same as original," Vijay Raghavan added.
The massive second wave across India has witnessed lakhs of daily fresh cases in the country and sharply rising number of deaths in more than a month.
Major Indian cities, including Delhi, Mumbai, Lucknow, Bengaluru, Ahmedabad are facing never-seen-before oxygen scarcity.
As many as 3,82,315 new coronavirus cases were reported in the last 24 hours along with 3,780 deaths due to the infection.
Indian Health Ministry Joint Secretary Luv Agarwal said around 2.4 percent day on day growth in Covid-19 cases has been noticed.
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