Will festive season trigger a third Covid wave?

India has vaccinated nearly half of its population. The government efforts have led to achieving an incredible number despite a rocky start. At a time when daily cases are hovering around the 30,000 mark and we see the virus retreating, what lies ahead? Is the worst over for India and has Covid-19 now turned into an endemic, as being suggested by few experts or is it the lull before the storm? We speak to eminent public health experts - Dr. Raj Shankar Ghosh, Senior Advisor, Vaccine Delivery, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation; Dr. Anant Bhan, Researcher – Global Health, Bioethics and Health Policy and Dr. Ratna Devi, Chair of the Board of Trustees, International Alliance of Patients’ Organizations, to help us decipher the current situation and the road ahead.