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 Third wave of Covid 19 The report - COVID-19: The race to finishing line - prepared by SBI Research, claims that the covid third wave peak will arrive in the month of September 2021. The research report says that India achieved its second wave peak on 7th May. After facing a severe second wave of coronavirus pandemic between February and May, there has been a sharp decline in India's daily cases in the last several weeks. However, the recent trajectory of COVID-19 cases has shown some worrying signs. As per the data shared by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoHFW), there has been been a slowdown in the downward trend of daily COVID infections and a slight increase in the positivity rate. This is worrisome as there has been an influx of people at tourist destinations with less or no COVID-appropriate behaviour seen f rom them. Third Wave
 Covid 19 Vaccines COVAXIN ® , India ' s indigenous  COVID-19 vaccine  by Bharat Biotech is developed in collaboration with the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) - National Institute of Virology (NIV). The indigenous, inactivated vaccine is developed and manufactured in Bharat Biotech's  BSL-3 (Bio-Safety Level 3)  high containment facility. The vaccine is developed using  Whole-Virion Inactivated Vero Cell  derived platform technology. Inactivated vaccines do not replicate and are therefore unlikely to revert and cause pathological effects. They contain dead virus, incapable of infecting people but still able to instruct the immune system to mount a defensive reaction against an infection.