Directions: In the following passage, some words have been deleted. Select the most appropriate option to fill in each blank.

After the third wave driven by the Omicron sub-lineage BA.2 peaked in end-January of this year with over 0.33 million cases a day, there has been a small bump in the number of daily cases reported in the first fortnight of June and a slightly bigger increase in the last one week to touch over 13,200 cases on June 17. But the rate of increase has been small and ___(1)___ to a few States and some major cities. The rate of growth of ___(2)___ cases has also been low. While the sub-lineage BA.2 is still the ___(3)___ strain in India, BA.4 and BA.5 seem to be causing the new cases. The small increase in ___(4)___ in the past week could be a reason for the more cases reported. The seven-day average test positivity rate doubled from less than 1% in early June to over 2% by mid-June and has been increasing ___(5)___ since then to 2.7% on June 20. Increasing the number of daily tests will result in more cases being ___(6)___. But with a large percentage of the adult population fully vaccinated and a sizable percentage also infected, the ___(7)___ should be more on hospitalizations and deaths and not daily infections. There has been a slight increase in hospitalization in a few States, but there is no cause for ___(8)___. However, there has not been an ___(9)___ in daily deaths. The small ___(10)___ in daily cases seen in a few States for the last three weeks, therefore, does not appear to mark the beginning of a new wave.