Geneva: The difference in COVID-19 surge in countries like the United States and India is the "scale of the surge and scale of the response", says Dr Roderico Ofrin, WHO's India Representative as the pandemic continues to challenges country's health infrastructure. The density of the population is probably a factor for this," Dr Ofrin told UN News in an exclusive interview on Monday. "...so it's a scale issue -- the scale of the surge and scale of the response. Over the possible spread of double mutant in India, Dr Ofrin said that "there is some evidence of variants, such as the B.1.17 as being more contagious and as more transmissibility and so is the B.1.617 which as the double mutations. On UN's response to COVID-19 surge in India, Dr Ofrin said, "We have 2600 network of experts in place in 23 states and union territories.

Source: Mint May 04, 2021 02:15 UTC