Guwahati, July 6 (NKTV): In a report titled Covid-19: The race to finishing line, published by SBI Research, it has been projected that the third wave of Covid is likely to hit India by mid-August. It also added that cases might peak on September.
The report also stated that vaccination is the only saviour.
It may be mentioned here that a previous report by SBI had predicted that the second wave of infections in India may peak in the third week of May.
The report stated that only 4.6 per cent of the population in India is fully vaccinated, while 20.8 per cent have received one dose, which much lower compared to other countries including the US (47.1 per cent), the UK (48.7 per cent), Israel (59.8 per cent), Spain (38.5 per cent) and France (31.2) among others.
“India has achieved its second wave peak on May 07 and going by the current data, the country can experience around 10,000 cases somewhere around the second week of July” State Bank of India’s Group Chief Economic Adviser Soumya Kanti Ghosh said in the report. “However, based on historical trends, the cases can start rising by the second fortnight of Aug’ 21 with peak cases at least a month later” he added.
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