After a year of battling Covid, signs that India may not face second wave

Some experts caution there is still a large fraction of our population, mainly outside the major cities, that remains susceptible to the virus. And this could lead to another surge

After a year of battling Covid-19, India’s graph of coronavirus cases has been on a steady decline, giving hope that the epidemic may be on its last leg. If this continues, epidemiologists say India might not witness a second wave, something many nations are grappling with.

India’s cases, which peaked at over 90,000 per day in mid-September last year, were down to around 9,000 on January 26. In the last two weeks, they have been in the range of 15,000-12,000 per day.

“No other country had the pattern like India’s,” said Jacob John, former head of the Centre for Advanced Research in