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Amit Sonawane, 35, an engineer at a district health office, gets his first vaccine dose in Palghar, India.
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The world has a new coronavirus mutant spreading from one continent to another and it looks like a tough one to stop.
The World Health Organization declared Monday the variant that emerged in India, known as B.1.617, is officially a “variant of concern.”
Several experts have suggest that the double mutant variant accelerated India s second Covid wave.
NEW DELHI: Many variants of the Covid-19 virus are in circulation in India and other parts of the world.
Viruses mutate all the time as part of the evolutionary biology. Since its outbreak last year, Covid-19 virus too has undergone several changes in its genetic code. While some mutations have weakened it, others have made it stronger, i.e., more infectious.
Experts have said that the massive surge in cases during India s second wave was triggered predominantly by the double-mutant variant found in the country. This variant has now surfaced in other parts of the world as well.
A coronavirus variant is spreading quickly in India, causing a massive surge in cases. Scientists are rushing to see if vaccines will be effective against this variant. So far, the news is hopeful.