India’s Health Ministry announced last month that it had detected 771 variants of concern (VOCs) of the coronavirus in India.
For more than a week, more than 2,000 Indians have been dying every day because of Covid-19 and on Wednesday, the country faced the grim reality of recording over 200,000 virus deaths.
Indian doctors in the UAE, who are keeping a close watch on the crisis back home, have looked into the coronavirus variants in the country, shedding light on why Covid is spreading fast.
India’s Health Ministry announced last month that it had detected 771 variants of concern (VOCs) of the coronavirus in India. These include viruses of the UK (B.1.1.7) lineage, South African (B.1.351) lineage, Brazilian (P.1) lineage, N440K variant, etc.
Source: https://www.khaleejtimes.com/coronavirus-pandemic/covid-in-india-uae-doctors-analyse-link-between-surge-in-cases-new-variants
