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Covid third wave likely to hit India late: Govt's expert panel chief NK Arora on ICMR study

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third wave of coronavirus could be delayed until December this year. "ICMR has come up with a study, which says the third wave will come late in the country," Dr Arora said. "We have a window period of 6 to 8 months to vaccinate everybody in the country," the chairman of the central panel said.

He also said that in the coming days, the government's target is to administer one crore Covid-19 vaccine doses every day in India.

The Delta Plus new variant of Covid-19, which has created fresh concerns across the country, cannot be yet linked to a third wave of the pandemic, Dr Arora has said.

However, he asserted that as variants are linked to new waves, the possibility can not be dismissed at all. "Waves are linked to new variants or new

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