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'UK strain most prevalent amid foreign variants, no 'Indian' strain'
Updated On: 31 March, 2021 12:00 AM IST | New Delhi | IANS
Union Health Secretary Rajesh Bhushan clarified that there are no Indian mutant strains. "Virus changes and it is normal. It is inevitable, not a cause to panic," he said during the media briefing.
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Amid the surge in Covid-19 cases, the Union Health Ministry on Tuesday said that 855 patients in India have been found to be affected with the UK, South African and Brazilian mutant variants of coronavirus.
According to the data provided during the weekly press conference, 807 coronavirus positive cases have been found to affected by the UK variant, 47 by the South African and one with the Brazilian variant. A total of 11,064 samples were subjected to genome sequencing.
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