India can see the early third covid waves from next month: SBI reports

Lifting alarm bells for policy makers and citizens, a research report has argued that India can watch the third covid wave from August 2021. Report – Covid-19: Race for Finishing Line – Prepared by SBI Research, claiming that the third wave Covid peak will arrive in September 2021.

The research report said that India reached the peak of the second wave on May 7. “Going with the current data, India can experience a case of around 10,000 somewhere around the July 2nd week. However, these cases can begin to rise in the second two weeks of August,” the report said.

This is the highlights of the report

Global data shows that the average peak of the third wave is around 1.7 times the peak case at the second wave.
However, based on historical trends, cases can begin to increase in the two weeks aug’21 with the peak case at least a month later.
India has begun to provide more than 40 doses of lakh vaccinations per day as indicated by 7 DMA.
Overall, India has entirely vaccinated 4.6% of its population, regardless of 20.8% after receiving a dose. It is still lower than other countries including the US, Britain, Israel, Spain, France, among others.