Karnataka Congress chief had undertaken the padayatra even as the COVID cases in the state are on the rise and the administration getting alert to prevent the third wave.
IIT Kanpur professor Dr Manindra Agrawal has predicted that the severity of the third wave, in terms of numbers, would be half than what India saw during the second wave of the Covid-19 pandemic
The resident doctors' protest initially began earlier in December but was withdrawn on December 9, following an assurance that the schedule for NEET PG counselling will be released in a weeks' time. That has not happened.
Last year, the NCBS had made it clear that no biological samples or infectious agents were transferred into or outside of India and the study had no connection with coronaviruses.