With the number of daily Covid-19 cases having stabilised over the course of this week, there is guarded optimism that Bengaluru's outbreak has plateaued. Experts, however, cautioned that a few more days are required to determine if the peak has happened.
The Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) officials said that the third wave of Covid is likely to peak by January 25 in Bengaluru, with daily infections touching 35,000 cases.
A spurt of Covid-19 cases among those aged 25 years and under has the government scrambling to understand whether the discovery of three clusters at educational institutions in the last one week are isolated incidents or the beginning of a new trend.
Even as the number of Covid-19 positive cases went up to 281 in the SDM college in Dharwad, three more clusters emerged in Karnataka — two in Bengaluru, and one in Mysuru as health experts debated if the outbreak is due to the Delta variant or another new variant.
Dengue and chikungunya cases are posing a challenge in the era of the Covid-19 pandemic because of overlapping symptoms, which necessitate the need to rule out Covid first through diligent testing. Bengaluru, which reported 1,081 dengue cases since the start of the month, also recorded 2,914 cases of Covid-19 between November 1 and 19.