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What was officially a difficult jumble of numbers and widely referred to as the Indian variant is now just the Delta variant.
A doctor of Indian origin, who was on Covid-19 duty in a Texas hospital for most of the past year, said he had become especially conscious about his ethnicity in recent months.
In April, a Caucasian infected with the coronavirus refused to let the 30-something doctor see him, and demanded different physicians till the one assigned was not of East or South Asian descent. It was my worst day at work, said the doctor, who, like the others interviewed for this report, did not agree to be named.
BANGALORE - Indians living overseas are hoping that the renaming of a coronavirus strain first identified in India will take away some of the stigma they have faced. What was officially a difficult jumble of numbers and widely referred to as the "Indian variant" is now just the Delta variant. A doctor of Indian origin, who was on Covid-19 duty.
Police in India's capital visited Twitter's offices to serve a notice about a tweet being tagged as "manipulated media." The post in question was by the ruling party's spokesperson Sambit Patra.
COVID-19: Indian experts, advisers blame government
The letter, which was not made public, went on to argue that the WHO classification does not refer to an Indian variant, but rather by its scientific name, B.1.617 which is a practice the WHO has followed for other known variants as well.
The ministry went on to argue that its request to remove the posts fell under efforts to curb false news and misinformation during the pandemic.
One senior government official, who was not named, told Reuters that the letter to social media companies was meant to send a signal that posts referencing the Indian variant damage the country s image.