Omicron: When will third Covid wave peak in India? Here’s what IIT study says
Live MintThe third wave of coronavirus in India will peak on 3 February, 2022, an IIT Kanpur study has noted, adding that the country needs to prepare for the third wave of infections after facing severe consequences from second wave of Covid-19. The IIT researchers --- who assumed that a third wave of Covid-19 may hit the country and followed the trends happening around the world --- have used Gaussian Mixture model to fit the Covid-19 data and make predictions. In their study, which is not peer reviewed yet and published in preprint server MedRxiv, the researchers used data from countries such as the US, UK, Germany, and Russia that are already facing the third Covid-19 wave. This project report forecasts India’s third wave of Covid-19 to start around mid December 2021 and the cases to peak in the beginning of February 2022.