Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar has said the third wave of the Covid-19 pandemic has already begun in Bihar. This comes after the state recorded 47 new Covid cases in the last 24 hours.

Earlier, on December 25, Nitish Kumar had ruled out the probability of bringing in restrictive measures in the state, amid rising cases of the new Omicron variant of coronavirus in the country, which led neighbouring states such as Uttar Pradesh to go in for night curfews.