Chief Minister of Maharashtra Uddhav Thackeray has said that people should not be complacent after a downward trend in cases. He said, “Several districts are seeing a decline in the number of Covid19 cases while some districts are seeing a spike. We are keeping a close tab on it. The Centre’s scientific body has warned about a third wave now. We are preparing for that since last month.”

The state of Maharashtra has reported 57,640 fresh Covid19 cases and 920 deaths in the last 24 hours as update at 1 am IST, May 06.

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On Wednesday, Karnataka has reported 50,112 new Covid19 cases. Out of these, 23,106 cases were from Bengaluru. The state also reported 346 more deaths, out of which 161 are from the capital city. Karnataka now has a positivity rate of 32.28%, which is quite concerning. Issues related to shortage of Hospital beds have also been reported from Bengaluru.

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K Vijay Raghavan, Principal Scientific Advisor to Centre, warning that a third wave of Covid19 infections is inevitable, said, “A phase three is inevitable, given the higher levels of circulating virus but it is not clear on what time scale this phase three will occur. Vaccines are effective against current variants. New variants will arise all over the world and in India too but variants that increase transmission will likely plateau. Immune evasive variants and those which lower or increase disease severity will arise going ahead.”