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India will not witness a fourth wave of Covid-19, say health experts

Dr Pragya Yadav, senior scientist at the government's ICMR-NIV institute in Pune, said there is no cause for worry until new variants of concern (VoCs) spread in India

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A healthcare worker collects a swab sample of a passenger for Covid-19 testing amid a surge in coronavirus cases, at Charbagh railway station in Lucknow, Wednesday, April 20, 2022. (PTI Photo/Nand Kumar)

BS Web Team New Delhi
Health officials and experts have sad that India is unlikely to witness a fourth wave of Covid-19. They state that India’s population has been widely exposed to several variants of the coronavirus and have developed hybrid immunity through natural infection and vaccination.

Dr Pragya Yadav, senior scientist at the government’s ICMR-NIV institute in Pune, said there is no cause for worry until new variants of concern (VoCs) spread in India.
 
She added that China is facing an outbreak of the Omicron variant of coronavirus as people there have not yet developed hybrid immunity. “But in India, people were exposed to