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Covid-19: Third wave has reached its peak in Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata, says IIT Prof

Updated on: 18 January,2022 09:57 AM IST  |  New Delhi
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Earlier in an interview with ANI, Dr Agrawal, who developed the model, had predicted that the Covid-19 third wave will peak by January end

Covid-19: Third wave has reached its peak in Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata, says IIT Prof

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Dr Manindra Agrawal, Professor of IIT Kanpur, said that the third wave of Covid-19, which is caused by Omicron, has reached its peak in Delhi, Mumbai and Kolkata as predicted by IIT's Sutra model. He further said that Covid-19 will peak in Maharashtra, Gujarat and Haryana this week.


Earlier in an interview with ANI, Dr Agrawal, who developed the model, had predicted that the Covid-19 third wave will peak by January end. Dr Agrawal said that Covid-19 is spreading faster in India than projected earlier. In a series of tweets, the IIT Professor said, "There appear two plausible reasons for this: 1) there are two groups in the population, one with less immunity against Omicron and the other with more. The mutant first spread in the first group causing a sharp rise. Now the first group is exhausted and so the spread is slower."


He further said, "Second, there was a lot of concern when Omicron started spreading, but in the last week or so, people almost everywhere have concluded that it causes only mild infection and have decided to handle it with standard remedies instead of getting tested." "In Maharashtra, it is predicted to peak on 19th. May peak sooner since the trajectory is almost flat at present. Gujarat is predicted to peak on the 19th. Haryana is predicted to peak on 20th," he added. He further said that southern states like Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka and Tamil Nadu will see the current wave peak next week.


"In Karnataka, the Covid-19 wave is predicted to peak on 23rd. A new phase just started and Tamil Nadu has been predicted to peak on 25th Jan. Trajectory has started deviating. Andhra Pradesh is predicted to peak on the 30th. No deviation yet from the predicted trajectory. Probably because of the spread in at a very early stage," he tweeted. "However, Haryana is predicted to peak on the 20th. Now to some states like Assam is predicted to peak on 26th Jan. No phase change yet, but the blue curve is suggesting there will be one soon," he added.

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