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Monsoon is again set to However, parts of north HIKED AGAIN enter an active phase, M India, some parts of south Rajeevan, Secretary of peninsula, central, east and AGENCIES Ministry of Earth Sciences northeast India could wit- FOR A BUMPER HARVEST: A farmer participates in a bull race at a paddy field in Batra village of South 24 Parganas district of West Bengal, Sunday. Farmers believe that said Sunday, noting that ness rainfall in the category New Delhi, July 4: Fuel prices con- participating in the race before ploughing brings rain and with it a better harvest PTI PHOTO forecast models show signs of normal to below normal. tinued an upward march Sunday and of increasing rain activity It added that the condi- the petrol was priced at `99.51 per from July 8. tions are not favourable for litre in the national capital. He said that models in- the monsoon's progress till In Delhi, the price of the fuel in- Second wave dicate the formation of a July 7 due to the lack of a creased by 35 paise. Oil marketing weather system in the Bay weather system. companies raised fuel prices Sunday of pandemic of Bengal. The northern limit of after keeping them unchanged for a day. “Monsoon Update: @moes- southwest monsoon (NLM) The price of diesel in Delhi also Covid 3rd wave may goi models show signs of re- is currently passing through increased to `89.36 from the Saturday under control, vival - increasing rains in Aligarh, Meerut, Ambala price of `89.18 per litre. South, west coast & East and Amritsar, the IMD said. says Naba Das Central India from 8 July.” “Prevailing meteorologi- “Models also make an cal conditions, large-scale CITY FUEL PRICES POST NEWS NETWORK early indication of formation atmospheric features and ` peak between Oct-Nov of a weather system over the forecast wind pattern by PETROL 100.36 (+0.35) Bhubaneswar, July 4: Stating that the BoB by12th and subsequent dynamical models suggest ` THE POSSIBLE THIRD WAVE OF THE PANDEMIC MAY SEE HALF THE CASES second wave of Covid-19 was slowly active monsoon phase,” that no favourable condi- DIESEL 97.45 (+0.20) coming under control, state Health Rajeevan, who has been re- tions are likely to develop RECORDED DURING SECOND SURGE, SAYS GOVT PANEL SCIENTIST Minister Naba Kishore Das Sunday ap- searching the Southwest for further advance of south- In the other key cities too petrol pealed to the people to comply with Monsoon for more than three west monsoon into remain- prices continued to climb to new PRESS TRUST OF INDIA is intermediate wherein we assume Covid appropriate behaviour. decades, tweeted. ing parts of Rajasthan, west highs. In Mumbai, it was priced at that vaccination is 20 per cent less ef- The minister claimed that the ini- After a good spell of rains Uttar Pradesh, Haryana, `105.58 per litre, while in Chennai New Delhi, July 4: A possible third fective in addition to optimistic sce- tiatives taken by the state government in the first two and half Chandigarh and Delhi and also it has surpassed the `100-mark and wave of coronavirus infection can nario assumptions.” to counter the pandemic have been suc- weeks of June, the Southwest Punjab during next 4-5 days,” is currently at `100.44 a litre. hit its peak between October-November “The final one is pessimistic with as- cessful in checking the spread of coro- Monsoon has not advanced the IMD said. Hence, sub- Price of petrol in Kolkata is also if Covid-appropriate behaviour is not sumptions different from the inter- navirus and talked about the initia- further since June 19. dued rainfall activity is very inching closer to the three-figure mark followed. However, it may see half the mediate one: a new 25 per cent more tives taken to boost health infrastructure Delhi, Haryana, parts of likely to continue to prevail and Sunday it was sold for `99.45 a daily cases recorded during the sec- infectious mutant spreads in August to deal with a possible third wave. west Uttar Pradesh, Punjab, over the northwest, central litre. In tandem with petrol prices, ond surge, said a scientist of a gov- (it is not Delta plus, which is not more “The second wave of Covid-19 is west Rajasthan are yet to see and western parts of penin- diesel prices also were raised Sunday. ernment panel tasked with model- infectious than Delta variant),” Agarwal slowly coming under control. From our the arrival of the monsoon. sular India during the next Price of diesel in Mumbai, Chennai ling of Covid-19 cases. said in a series of tweets. side, we have bolstered the health sys- In its forecast for the July, 4-5 days, it added. and Kolkata was `96.91, `93.91 and Covid infection can also spread According to a graph shared by tem with the appointment of more `92.27 per litre, respectively. faster during the third wave if any new Agarwal, the second wave is likely doctors and nurses. We have also been Officials in oil companies attrib- virulent variant of SARS-CoV-2 to plateau by mid-August and a pos- working on installing oxygen facilities ute the consistent increase in fuel emerges, said Manindra Agarwal who sible third wave could reach its peak in health institutions and ensuring 45 dead in Philippine prices to development in the global oil is working with the Sutra Model – he predictions for the third wave between October and November. adequate drug supplies. The govern- markets where both product and crude the mathematical projection of the Twere made on factors like loss of In the pessimistic scenario, the ment has also increased the number price have been firming up for the Covid-19 trajectory. immunity, effects of vaccination third wave could see daily Covid-19 of beds in the state,” he said. past couple of months on demand The panel was formed by the and the possibility of a more cases rise up between 1,50,000 and The minister added, “I urge the military plane crash rise amidst the slowing of pandemic. Department of Science and Technology virulent variant, which was not done 2,00,000 in the country, the scientist people to adhere to the Covid guidelines However, a closer look at the fuel re- last year to forecast the surge of coro- while modelling the second wave noted. The figure is less than half of and together we can reduce the impact tail prices in India gives a picture navirus cases using mathematical cientists have created three what was recorded when the deadly of the second wave of Covid-19 soon. that it is the high level of taxes that models. Besides Agarwal, who is a Sscenarios. One is optimistic, second wave had hit its peak in the first We are vaccinating more and more is keeping fuel rates higher even in scientist with IIT-Kanpur, the panel also where life goes back to normal by half of May, flooding hospitals with people on a war footing to provide times when global oil prices are firm. has M Vidyasagar, another scientist August and there is no new mutant. patients and claiming thousands of protection to the local community.” with IIT-Hyderabad, and Lt Gen Another is intermediate wherein it lives daily. On May 7, India had Talking about the state’s pre- Madhuri Kanitkar, Deputy Chief is assumed that vaccination is 20 recorded 4,14,188 Covid-19 cases, the paredness for the third wave, Das said, (Medical) of Integrated Defence Staff, per cent less effective highest during the second wave. “We have boosted the heath infra- WEATHER as members. If a new mutant emerges, the third structure to counter any threat of the BHUB CTK The panel had earlier received flak time, which was not done while mod- wave could spread rapidly, but it will third wave of Covid-19. On June 17, we for not predicting the ferocity of the elling the second wave. be half of what the second wave was. prepared a standard operating proto- MAX 35.9° 35.8° second wave of Covi-19 in the country. He said a detailed report will be Delta variant is infecting people who col (SOP) to ensure that all our systems TEMP MIN 26.0° 26.0° About the predictions for the third published soon. contracted a different variant earlier. are in place to combat the possible ASSOCIATED PRESS this year. It crashed while Forecast wave, Agarwal said the loss of im- “We have created three scenarios. So this has been taken into consid- Covid-19 third wave if.” The minister landing shortly before noon Humidity 100% 79% munity, effects of vaccination and One is optimistic, where we assume eration, Agarwal said.