KT Exclusive: The third Covid wave is coming, this Indian state is ready Rajesh Tope, Minister for Public Health & Family Welfare, Maharashtra. — File photo Supplied photo Coalition state govt has a robust plan in place ahead of the anticipated third wave in August Maharashtra’s battle to avert and combat the third wave of Covid-19 — anticipated in August — intensifies, as it deploys innovative strategies to rein in the spread of the lethal contagion that has roiled the economy and crippled normal life to a standstill amid untold human miseries and mounting daily death toll. The state may halt all development work, if required, and divert funds to fight the unprecedented challenges owing to Covid-19, said Maharashtra’s Minister for Public Health & Family Welfare Rajesh Tope on Thursday in an exclusive interview with