Third Covid Wave Could Peak Around Late Oct: MHA Panel

Report underlines that the paediatric facilities like doctors, ventilators and ambulances are nowhere close to what may be required in case a large number of children become infected

NEW DELHI

A committee of experts constituted under the National Institute of Disaster Management (NIDM) has warned of third Covid wave that could peak around late October.

The committee was set up under the direction of the Home Ministry which had sought better preparedness for children who might be at high risk. The report has been submitted to the PMO.

The study titled “Third Wave Preparedness: Children Vulnerability and Recovery” has details about the possibility of Covid-affecting children and the required strategies to deal with the pandemic.

The report has underlined that the “paediatric facilities like doctors, staff, equipment like ventilators, ambulances, etc are nowhere close to what may be required in case a large number of children become infected.”

The report said the third wave is already upon us if we look at the rising R-value, the reproduction rate of COVID-19, that has increased from 0.9 to 1 over the last week of July.