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AIIMS chief Dr Randeep Guleria told NDTV that third wave will not be as severe as second wave. However, he also cautioned against underestimating the virus and its variants – particularly the more aggressive and virulent strains – and said “we need to learn from the second… to deal with the third”.
“There are a lot of debates on whether the third wave will be more severe than the second… my feeling is the subsequent wave will not be as bad as the second,” Dr Guleria, head of Delhi’s All India Institute of Medical Sciences and a top government figure in the war on the coronavirus, said.
“We are very closely monitoring that (the ‘Delta Plus’ variant) (but) at the moment ‘Delta Plus’ is not the dominant variant in India… the ‘Delta’ variant is. So we need to actively track it… do genome sequencing to see how this variant is behaving in our population and prepare accordingly,” he said.
