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Now, Indian double mutant Covid strain detected in Assam
Before Assam, the double mutant strain was founda in Maharashtra, Delhi and West Bengal
Friday April 23, 2021 8:16 PM, IANS
Guwahati: Amid the rising number of Covid-19 cases in Assam, samples of the double mutant variant of novel coronavirus have been found at the Dibrugarh Airport, the first such detection in the northeastern region, officials said on Friday.
Health officials said that before Assam, the double mutant strain was founda in Maharashtra, Delhi and West Bengal.
Assam Health Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma tweeted: Recent samples from Dibrugarh Airport are positive for B.1.617 strain or the Indian double mutant (L452R and E484Q) strain of SARS-Cov-2. We need to be very very careful.
Double Mutant of Coronavirus Strain Detected at Dibrugarh Airport
Specialists comments on the double mutant Indian variation of SARS-CoV-2, B.1.617, is surely avoiding the opposite transcriptase-polymerase chain response.
| 22 April 2021 1:13 PM GMT
GUWAHATI: In the Midst of the rising concerns of the Covid-19 infection, Assam is seen affected by the Indian variant of Double Mutant virus which is also conferred as SARS-CoV-2 or named as B.1.617.
The fresh samples have been collected from the passengers at Dibrugarh Airport, confirming that the most dangerous and modish variation of the covid virus was found against them.
In the context of this rising situation of Covid-19, the State s Health Minister showing his concern says that that the situation is worrisome and everyone needs to be more careful.
File: Vials of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine are pictured in a vaccination centre.
JERUSALEM: Israel has registered eight cases of a coronavirus variant first identified in India and believes that the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine is at least partially effective against it, an Israeli health official said on Tuesday.
An initial seven cases of the Indian variant were detected in Israel last week among people arriving from abroad and who have since undergone preliminary testing, the Health Ministry said. The impression is that the Pfizer vaccine has efficacy against it, albeit a reduced efficacy, the ministry s director-general, Hezi Levy, told Kan public radio, saying the number of cases of the variant in Israel now stood at eight.