Covid BF.7 Variant May Not Be As Serious In India As In China Because...: Top Scientist
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Media reports indicate that India reported four cases of the BF.7 variant of coronavirus.
The severity of the BF.7 variant of coronavirus in India may not be as serious as it is currently in China as Indians have already developed "herd immunity", a top official of CSIR- Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology (CCMB) here said.
Vinay K Nandicoori, Director of CCMB, stressing the need to follow Covid appropriate behaviour, said there is always a concern that all these variants have the ability to escape the immunity and can infect people who are vaccinated and even sometimes infected with the previous variants of Omicron.
"The severity of the infection is not as much as they used to be with Delta. That's because we do have herd immunity to an extent. Actually, we have herd immunity because we are exposed to the other viruses," he told PTI.
Media reports indicate that India reported four cases of the BF.7 variant of coronavirus.
