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India's overall COVID-19 cases remain low, though there has been an uptick in cases in the last week in several cities. Delhi, for example, is reporting rising COVID-19 cases among children in schools, which is a worrying sign.
Dr Kang said that it is unethical, immoral and unscientific to provide the antibodies treatment and asked the doctors to practice better medicine. Notably, monoclonal antibodies treatment for COVID has been excluded in the revised National COVID task force treatment.
There is also no evidence at the moment that this can escape vaccines. "But based on computer modelling data, it does look likely, but until we have data from the laboratory and from people who are infected with this strain, and only after they are vaccinated can we tell what vaccine performance will be like against the strain," Kang said. 📰 New COVID-19 Variant Omicron Seems To Be Very Transmissible, Can Be Detected Soon, Says Top Indian Virologist Dr Gagandeep Kang.