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Is 4th Covid wave coming? What ICMR expert said amid uptick in cases

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Covid-19 cases in the past two weeks, adding that high-level testing must be conducted in areas that are reporting new or clusters of cases, according to people familiar with the matter.

Samiran Panda, the Additional Director general of the ICMR on Friday told news agency ANI, the situation coulkd still not e called a fourth wave of coronavirus in the country.  “It's wrong to say 4th wave is coming, we need to examine district-level data.

High number of cases in few districts can't be considered as unifrom increase in cases across country. Not every variant is variant of concern," Panda said to ANI.

He stressed on the fact that district level data needs to be collated in order to understand the current situation regarding the pandemic in the country.

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