India.com — March 5, 2022. “In epidemiologist Ramanan Laxminarayan’s view, there will likely be new, smaller waves of the pandemic but the basis for the IIT Kanpur prediction is not clear. Emergence of new variants, continuation of vaccination coverage and eventually, a booster policy will determine when and how COVID-19 will re-emerge, Laxminarayan, director of the Center for Disease Dynamics, Economics & Policy in Washington and New Delhi, told PTI.”