COVID-19 Lambda variant: Symptoms, origin, nomenclature of the ‘highly transmissible’ virus

The newly found Lambda variant in South America has been designated as the 'variant of interest' by the World Health Organisation.

New Delhi: Though the coronavirus crisis situation in India has significantly improved in recent weeks but the danger is far from over. India has recorded 45,892 new cases and 817 deaths in the past 24 hours. With this, the total case count has reached 3,07,09,557. There are talks about the latest and highly transmissible Lambda variant that can wreak havoc if the situation is not monitored closely. However, in relief-bringing news, it’s been reported that the Lambda variant hasn’t been found in India so far.  Here’s everything we know so far about the variant which originated in Peru and has been detected in 30 countries.