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Aligarh: The Aligarh Muslim University Vice-Chancellor, Prof Tariq Mansoor took initiative to thoroughly investigate the COVID-19 strains prevalent in and around Aligarh Civil Lines area, including AMU and surrounding localities to ascertain the possible factor for the high infectivity rate of COVID-19.
At the instance of the Vice-Chancellor, AMU, Viral Research and Diagnostic Laboratory, Department of Microbiology sent 20 samples to CSIR-Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology, New Delhi for genome sequencing.
According to Professor Haris Manzoor Khan, Chairman, Dept of Microbiology and the principal investigator, Viral Research and Diagnostic Laboratory, AMU, among the 20 samples sent, 18 (90%) had B.1.617.2 lineage referred to as the Double Mutation Variant, first identified in Maharashtra, India on October 5, 2020.