A health worker receives a dose of Sinopharm s coronavirus vaccine at a vaccination centre in Peshawar. Reuters/File
PESHAWAR: The health department is struggling to increase coronavirus vaccination rate and ensure the enforcement of smart lockdowns in the province amid the growing detection of Delta, Alpha and Beta strains of the virus, insist officials.
The officials told
Dawn that the health department had sent samples of 50 Covid-19 confirmed cases to the National Institute of Health, Islamabad, for gene sequencing and 16 of them were found to be Delta variant and five Alpha one.
They said the NIH had confirmed eight cases of Alpha, Beta and Delta variants of the virus last month.
↓ cleavage residues indicate that the NDV isolates correspond to mesogenic/velogenic pathotypes.
Figure 2 Deduced amino acid sequence alignment of F gene sequences of NDV strains isolated from Ethiopia. Names of strains are shown on the left-hand side of the figure. Identification with the reference La Sota (genotype II) vaccine strains is indicated by dots. They indicate the cleavage site of the deduced aa sequence of the F gene. X indicates an ambiguous aa sequence.
Abbreviations: Eth, Ethiopia; Chk, chicken.
Genetic Distance
The Ethiopian NDV isolates have a within-group genetic distance of 10.16% and a between-group genetic distance of 25.1% (Table 2). These isolates are grouped for ease of presentation as published by authors: group1 (sequences characterized in this study from the central part of the country), group 2 from the central part of Ethiopia,