Absolutely right. The crypto Market went down sharply last week due to shocking news of new variant of covid-19 virus discovered in South which is very fatal and spreads faster and this virus is capable to evade Body immune system.This news caused panic selling in all markets including stocks, commodities and crypto. Though Bitcoin price recovered but still very sluggish and new ATH by end of 2021 seems difficult to achieve.
the issue now is different from tha new variant and trust me this is not about covid.
It is at some belief is manipulation , we cannot also call this as correction because the prices already corrected few weeks ago when the bitcoin price drops down to below 30k .