The country on Tuesday recorded six cases of a mutant strain of Covid-19, which is 70% more transmissible and was first reported in the United Kingdom a few days ago. All the six infected people have been kept in single-room isolation in designated health care facilities by respective state governments in the country. Labs for monitoring genomic variations in new UK virusTen regional laboratories have been identified by the government where states will send 5% of their coronavirus positive samples for genome sequencing to detect the new coronavirus strain that has emerged. The viral genome sequencing data generated will be analysed by the respective centres and sent to the National Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), Delhi, for collation and integration. As per reports, experts have said that coronavirus vaccines are not dependent on one antibody.

Source: Mint December 29, 2020 04:27 UTC