2021-07-09 01:36:04 GMT2021-07-09 09:36:04(Beijing Time) Xinhua English
by Peerzada Arshad Hamid
NEW DELHI, July 9 (Xinhua) The emergence of the Delta and Delta Plus variants has once again put India in a state of high alert.
Two weeks after the Indian government declared the COVID-19 variant Delta Plus one of concern, health experts say the mutation, also known as AY.1 or B.1.617.2.1, has an extra mutation in the spike protein of the SARS-CoV-2 virus and poses a new challenge for the country, even with nationwide mass vaccination underway.
EXPERTS IN INDIA RAISE CONCERN
The first case of Delta Plus was found in India on June 11.
India crossed 1 million coronavirus cases on Friday, third only to the United States and Brazil, prompting concerns about its readiness to confront an inevitable surge that could overwhelm hospitals a
NEW DELHI: An Indian government demand that social media companies, including Facebook and Twitter, remove any content that refers to an “Indian variant” of the coronavirus disease has been branded a “pointless exercise” and an “unlawful request” by experts. “This is completely false. There is no such variant of COVID-19 scientifically cited as such by the World Health
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India’s top virologist Dr Shahid Jameel has resigned as the chair of a key panel spearheading genome sequencing for Covid-19 samples, after he repeatedly criticised the government’s response to the virus outbreak. Dr Jameel, who is highly respected in the scientific community, has been outspoken throughout the pandemic and recently penned an opinion piece in the New York Times which assessed the Modi government’s response to multiple waves of.