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New double mutant Coronavirus strain found in India: Government
Updated On: 25 March, 2021 07:28 AM IST | New Delhi | Agencies
The new variant is in addition to 771 strains detected in samples from at least 18 states across the country
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Health workers carry a COVID-19 patient to an isolation ward at Government Hamidia hospital in Bhopal on Wednesday. Pic/PTI
A new “double mutant variant” of SARS-CoV-2 has been detected in India, in addition to the several “variants of concern”, that have already been found in at least 18 states, the Union Health Ministry said on Wednesday.
The ministry, however, said it could not be sufficiently established yet if these variants were behind the recent spike in COVID-19 cases in some states.
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