Amid spiking Covid-19 cases around the globe since the emergence and spread of a new Omicron sub-variant BA.2, murmurs of a fourth Covid-19 wave have already started doing the rounds. With over 40 million Covid-19 cases in the country to date, second only to the United States, India’s health system took a beating last year during the second wave of Covid-19, which peaked across India by the end of April. Thousands lost their lives to the deadly Delta variant with many dying due to the unavailability of hospital beds or oxygen inside hospitals. The period saw a blatant rise in prices of oxygen cylinders, Covid home care services and private transport fares among others. Even as the nation emerged battered from the second wave, the third wave, driven by Omicron, the latest variant of SARS-CoV-2, was waiting just down the corner. While the ‘milder’ Omicron spread more rapidly than Delta, its effects were less deadly. Experts have since doubled down on the importance of vaccination and many have congratulated India’s immunisation drive.