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1. A third Covid wave in India is "inevitable", and it could hit the country in the next six to eight weeks, AIIMS chief Dr Randeep Guleria tells NDTV on Saturday morning amid unlocking in parts of the country after weeks of strict restrictions. The country's main challenge is vaccinating a huge population and the increase in dose gaps for Covishield "may not be a bad" approach to provide protection to cover more people, he explained. 2. All educational institutions in Telangana will reopen from July 1 for physical classes, the K Chandrashekar Rao government says on Saturday as it announced the complete reopening of the state amid the receding second Covid wave. 3. Mizoram and Manipur are the two states where the Delta variant of coronavirus is detected for the first time in the north-east region, sources have said. After testing 20 samples from Manipur in a laboratory in Hyderabad, 18 were found to be of Delta variant, sources said. 4. The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) will hold a meeting tooday to discuss the Centre's invite for Prime Minister Narendra Modi's meeting with all parties of Jammu and Kashmir, party chief Mehbooba Mufti tells NDTV. 5. Brazil on Saturday becomes the second country after the United States to surpass 500,000 COVID-19 deaths as the South American giant grapples with a third wave of the pandemic. "500,000 lives lost due to the pandemic that affects our Brazil and the world," Health Minister Marcelo Queiroga tweeted.