Amid the rising cases of the new COVID-19 variant in parts of India, many people are concerned about the rise of the third wave of the pandemic, and the severity of the new variant. Answering these questions, scientists have made a big claim in this regard. He further added that all six people were fully vaccinated and had recovered from the infection. Mishra, while talking to PTI, said, “There is no evidence or observation to suggest that there are more vaccine breakthrough or re-infections or more infectivity due to AY.4. At the moment, it does not look like it.” He stated that AY.4 is not a variant, but a sub-lineage of the Delta variant of COVID-19, which drove the second wave of the pandemic in India.

Source: dna October 26, 2021 07:05 UTC