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What We Know About India s Covid-19 Variant B.1.617 © Manish Swarup/Associated Press
NEW DELHI Scientists are trying to understand the role coronavirus variants, including a new one known as B.1.617, are playing in the world’s fastest-growing surge of Covid-19 cases in India.
The flood of cases threatens to cripple the healthcare system in India, where hospitals in the hardest-hit cities have been running out of oxygen and turning away patients. The country is battling the world’s fastest-growing coronavirus surge and has only a 1.9% vaccination rate.
Public-health experts say that the wave of infections appears to be driven by many of the same causes that have led to rising case counts elsewhere primarily a relaxation of pandemic control measures but that there are strong indications variants are also a factor.
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India is facing one of the worst COVID-19 outbreaks in the world, buckling the country’s weak healthcare system and overwhelming the nation’s ability to cremate and bury its dead.
The world’s second-most populous nation recorded 379,257 new cases Thursday, a daily record for any country since the coronavirus first emerged more than a year ago. It also reported 3,645 deaths, the most in a single day in India. The actual numbers of infections and deaths are believed to be significantly higher.
The outbreak is being blamed on a so-called double mutant variant of the coronavirus that’s believed to be highly infectious. A vaccine drive has sputtered due to limited doses.