Deadly third wave of Covid to hit India; potential outcomes and dangers associated with the outbreak
The potential third wave of coronavirus triggered by mutant variants could make schools and colleges close indefinitely in India
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With more than 4,00,000 fresh positive cases reported on May 05, the coronavirus pandemic is literally wreaking havoc in India. As the number of positive cases in the country has increased drastically over the past month, the country s healthcare infrastructure has also crunched, and several patients in the nation are not even getting hospital beds for their treatment. Amid all this chaos, the Union Health Ministry, on Wednesday revealed that a potential third wave of Covid in the country is inevitable. Medical experts believe that the third wave in the country could be much dangerous, and it will attack people irrespective of their age group.
Third Wave of COVID-19 is Inevitable: Centre
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| 5 May 2021 2:59 PM GMT
New Delhi: As India reports more than 20 million cases of the COVID-19 virus during the pandemic, a top scientific adviser of the government on Wednesday said that the country will see a third wave of the COVID-19 pandemic if the virus continues to evolve further.
In a press briefing by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, officials said that the long COVID wave of such ferocity that the country was experiencing currently was not predicted.