India's top govt adviser warns second-wave of Covid-19 not yet over, South Asia News & Top Stories


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NEW DELHI (REUTERS) - India's devastating second coronavirus wave, which has raged since March and killed thousands of people, is not over yet, a senior government official said on Friday (July 9), warning citizens to avoid crowding at tourist places. "The war is not over yet," Mr Vinod Kumar Paul, who heads a federal government panel on vaccines told a news conference on Friday, minutes after a video was played showing maskless people crowding at a waterfall in the Himalayan state of Uttarakhand. India is now reporting a tenth of its peak daily numbers in May. On Friday, it reported...