India s COVID-19 third wave likely to peak in 14 days: IIT Study - Scientists & researchers have been working to find out the timeline as to when the third wave will end and they might have the answer
The virologist said that when the new strain was sequenced, it had caused major concern due to the number of mutations. It has caused the most recent surge in Covid-19 cases across the globe
The third wave of Covid-19 is being driven by the Omicron variant that experts have said is in the community transmission stage in India and it has also become dominant in multiple metros
We published an article on the
momentum of the second wave of Covid-19 in India on May 13 and concluded that the numerical peak of the second wave got over on May 6. It has been suggested that this may be artifactual because the daily number of tests for Covid-19 has come down in some states and therefore the number of new cases may be underestimated. However, the fact that the test positivity rate is also decreasing (from 22.6% on May 8 to 19% on May 15) concurrent with the decline in number of new cases supports our contention that the second wave peak is over. Is there any other corroborating evidence that it is over?