India
oi-Deepika S
New Delhi, May 06: The government on Wednesday said that a third wave of coronavirus pandemic was “inevitable”, although a time-frame for it could not be predicted.
In a press briefing by the Ministry of Health Affairs on Wednesday, officials said the long COVID wave of such “ferocity” that the country was experiencing currently “was not predicted”.
Twelve states, including Maharashtra, Karnataka, Kerala and Uttar Pradesh, have more than 1 lakh active COVID cases, the government said.
Karnataka, Kerala, Tamil Nadu, West Bengal, Rajasthan and Bihar are among the states that show increasing trend in daily cases, it said.
The government also said that 24 states and UTs show more than 15 per cent COVID positivity rate.
From May 1, 6.71 lakh people in the age group of 18-44 years in nine states have been administered the vaccines, it added.
“Phase three is inevitable…