Coronavirus | Prevalence of U.K. variant rises in Delhi
The Hindu
Proportion has risen from 28% in March to 50% last week in genome sequencing.
The proportion of the U.K. variant (B.1.1.7) in genome samples sequenced from COVID cases in Delhi has risen from 28% in the second week of March to the 50% in the last week, Dr. Sujeet Singh, Director, National Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) said in a webinar on Friday. The U.K. variant has a mutation N501Y that is reported to increase the transmission of the virus leading to more numbers and a knock-on consequence of increasing disease severity and mortality. Also read |More Related News
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