Third Wave of CoronaVirus is Inevitable, Says Principal Scientific Advisor to Centre K Vijayraghava

GG News Bureau

New Delhi, 5th May. K Vijayaraghavan, the principal scientific advisor to the central government, has given a serious warning about the epidemic. He said that the third wave of corona pandemic is definite, but it is not clear when and at what level this third wave will occur. He said that we should prepare for new waves of disease.

Vijayaraghavan said that different variants of the corona virus spread like the original strain. They cannot spread in any other way. Like the original strain of the virus, it infects humans in such a way that it becomes more contagious as it enters the body and replicates itself. He stated that vaccines are effective against current variants. New variants will be revealed all over the world with India but there will be more variants which will be more contagious.

He said that scientists from India and all over the world are working fast by developing warning and modified tools to predict and work against such variants. He said that an intensive research program going on in India and other countries.

A phase three is inevitable, given the higher levels of circulating virus but it is not clear on what time scale this phase three will occur. We should prepare for new waves: K VijayRaghavan, Principal Scientific Advisor to Centre pic.twitter.com/c6lRzYaV2q

— ANI (@ANI) May 5, 2021