The Indian health ministry’s joint Covid-19 joint monitoring group will on Monday meet to discuss the new mutant coronavirus strain that h...
The Indian health ministry’s joint Covid-19 joint monitoring group will on Monday meet to discuss the new mutant coronavirus strain that has cropped up in the United Kingdom, reported NDTV. The meeting is likely to occur at 10 am.
Nearly a third of England’s population has entered a lockdown, four days before Christmas, as authorities warned that the new strain of the virus was going “out of control”. The new variant of the virus has spread rapidly in London and South East England.
Prime Minister Boris Johnson had said the new strain “may be up to 70% more transmissible than the old variant” although there was no evidence it was more deadly or led to a more severe illness.
In India, the joint monitoring group chaired by the director general of health services will discuss the mutated variant of the coronavirus. The World Health Organization’s India representative Dr Roderico H Ofrin, also a member of the group, may participate in the meeting, according to NDTV.
The mutation of the virus has worried experts across the world as drug manufacturers are still in the preliminary stages of the vaccine against Covid-19. The new variant in the UK was first seen in mid-September in London and Kent. By December, it had become the “dominant...
