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A panel set up by the central government, in its latest report, has warned that a third wave of Covid-19 pandemic could peak around October. It said the public healthcare system should have better medical preparedness for children who might be at similar risk as adults. The report of a committee of experts constituted under the National Institute of Disaster Management (NIDM), which was set up by the Union home ministry, said, “Paediatric [control] facilities including doctors, staff, equipment like ventilators, ambulances etc are nowhere close to what may be required in case a large number of children become infected.” According to the report, there is no direct evidence that proves children in India will be more affected in the anticipated third wave. The report, however, suggests that children remain a cause of concern since they are still not vaccinated. With most states on gradual Unlock mode that included reopening of schools and colleges, there has been great concern among parents especially about children being exposed to the coronavirus virant in the third wave, where children from the age of 12 and above would be the most vulnerable. The CDC in the USA has recommended that children from the age of 12 and above get vaccinated to protect themselves from the virus. In India, warnings of a third wave. This is after the Centre failed to adequately prepare for the second wave of coronavirus infections. Now the central health authorities are routinely warning people of the possibility of a third wave. It started earlier this month with the Principal Scientific Advisor K Vijay Raghavan calling the third wave “inevitable” even though its timing could not be predicted. There has been some speculation about the third wave being even stronger than the second. However, this is not something that can be predicted. Usually, it is expected that every fresh wave would be weaker than the previous one. The second wave of COVID-19 was, reportedly, significantly driven by the Delta variant of the coronavirus, which is more infectious and has immune escape properties (this is still being studied). Those who have predicted the third wave in India base their conclusions on several studies done on the first and second covid-19 wave. Bloomberg, a media corporation in the USA, reported that a third wave in India would peak in October 2021. It cited various reports which said that the upward curve could be evident in August. According to the Bloomberg reports, the best-case scenario would consist of India seeing one lakh infections per day, and the worst scenario, 1.5 lakh per day in the third wave. This wave would be comparatively smaller than the second wave, which saw a record of over four lakh cases in a day on May 7. Another prediction about a likely third wave was from an early model by IIT Kanpur’s Professor Rajesh Ranjan and Mahendra Verma. According to the model, a second scenario based on life going back to normal and a mutation in the virus predicted a peak by mid-September, which could be severer than the second wave. The third scenario, predicted in the case that stricter restrictions continue in the country, showed the third wave’s peak in late October, and a lower peak than the second wave. These were based on the assumptions that India would be fully unlocked by July 15,2021. If these predictions come true then authorities must do more since the future generation are at great risk. <\/p>\n
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