KARACHI. KAZINFORM -Pakistan on Friday confirmed that the «Indian strain» of the coronavirus – a «double-mutant» variant – was detected in the country, Anadolu Agency reports.
The government says that since WHO nomenclature doesn't use 'Indian variant', use of the term is tantamount to spreading 'false news/misinformation' about coronavirus.
May 21, 2021
Suhaimi Yusof at the Diam Diam Era press conference on Nov 18, 2020.
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Dr Mandeep Singh Azad
SBI Research says that India should not be “complacent” as it’ll reach the peak of the second wave as “this could lead to a widespread increase in infection as has happened in the current wave”. The peak of the second coronavirus wave in India will come around mid-May with active cases reaching around 36 lakhs. As states go for partial or weekend lockdowns, SBI Research also revised India’s FY22 growth projection to 10.4 per cent real GDP and 14.2 per cent nominal GDP. It said based on other countries’ experiences, might reach its second peak when the recovery rate will be 77.8 per cent. “Given that every 1 per cent reduction in recovery takes around 4.5 days, it translates into around 20 days from now. Also, our estimate shows that every 1 per cent reduction in recovery rate increases active cases by 1.85 lakh.India on 25 March announced that a new variant of the coronavirus had been detected from samples collected fro
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The World Health Organization yesterday said the new Indian COVID-19 variant responsible for the fast acceleration of explosive outbreaks in India had been detected in dozens of countries worldwide.
AN NDTV report said that according to the UN health agency, the new strain identified as B.1.617 variant of COVID-19, originally discovered in India in October 2020, had been detected in over 4,500 samples uploaded to an open-access databank from 44 nations in all six regions of the WHO.
In its weekly update on the COVID-19 crisis, WHO said it received reports of detections from five countries more. Outside of India, WHO said Britain had reported they had the largest number of COVID-19 cases caused by the said new strain.