India says double mutant linked to Covid surge © Reuters India says double mutant variant responsible for deadly Covid wave
India has said a double mutant variant of the coronavirus first discovered there in March may be linked to a deadly second wave there.
An official with the National Centre for Disease Control said however, that they had been unable to fully establish a correlation.
A double mutant is when two mutations come together in the same virus.
Meanwhile, India reported a record 412,000 cases in the space of 24 hours on Wednesday, and 3,980 deaths.
The government s top scientific adviser also said a third wave is inevitable.
Covid-19 killing India s journalists, too
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image captionThe extent of India s suffering as it deals with the coronavirus pandemic has shocked the world
India has had more Covid-19 cases in the last seven days than anywhere else in the world. Experts believe the real death toll may be higher than the official numbers.
Many of you have been sending us questions regarding the current situation and we asked experts inside and outside the BBC to answer them.
Why is India s second wave devastating? Jabran Ali Khan
Dr Om Srivastava, consultant and visiting professor, infectious diseases, Mumbai, answers: We were very careful in the first wave. The story of the Dharavi slum in Mumbai is a fantastic example of how infections can be contained. It was a model replicated across the world.Over a period of time, from about November of last year, we probably became a little bit complacent, thinking it was out of our lives.
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image captionThe extent of India s suffering as it deals with the coronavirus pandemic has shocked the world
India has had more Covid-19 cases in the last seven days than anywhere else in the world. Experts believe the real death toll may be higher than the official numbers.
Many of you have been sending us questions regarding the current situation and we asked experts inside and outside the BBC to answer them.
Why is India s second wave devastating? Jabran Ali Khan
Dr Om Srivastava, consultant and visiting professor, infectious diseases, Mumbai, answers: We were very careful in the first wave. The story of the Dharavi slum in Mumbai is a fantastic example of how infections can be contained. It was a model replicated across the world.Over a period of time, from about November of last year, we probably became a little bit complacent, thinking it was out of our lives.
A horror story : India Covid deaths pass 200,000 © Reuters
India has reached the devastating figure of 200,000 coronavirus deaths, with the pressure on many hospitals showing no sign of abating amid a sweeping second wave.
The real number of fatalities is thought to be far greater, with many not being officially recorded.
Oxygen supplies remain critically low across the country, with the black market the only option for many people.
Crematoriums are operating non-stop, with makeshift pyres in car parks.
There have been at least 300,000 new infections every day in the past week, with more than 360,000 new cases in the past 24 hours on Wednesday. Overall, more than 17.9 million cases have been registered.
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