Amid super spreader events, vaccine shortage, will India face a third wave?

With the peak of the second wave well and truly behind us, there is a possibility of people assuming that the pandemic is now over

The coronavirus pandemic has taken the centrestage in India’s public discourse since March 2020 when the country saw the first lockdown being imposed. Till July 9, 2021, India had officially reported a cumulative 30.7 million cases of Covid-19 with more than 400,000 deaths. The months of April and May 2021 saw India face a brutal second wave of the coronavirus pandemic. At its peak India saw more than 400,000 new cases of Covid-19 every day with more than 4,000 daily deaths reported during this period.

Even as experts debate the actual number of cases or deaths in the country in