Indian Covid variant found in at least 17 countries: WHO
- Date: 28-Apr-2021
- Source: National News Agency - Lebanon
- Sector:Healthcare
- Country:Lebanon
Indian Covid variant found in at least 17 countries: WHO
NNA - The World Health Organization said Tuesday that a variant of Covid-19 feared to be contributing to a surge in coronavirus cases in India has been found in over a dozen countries.
The UN health agency said the B.1.617 variant of Covid-19 first found in India had as of Tuesday been detected in over 1,200 sequences uploaded to the GISAID open-access database "from at least 17 countries".
"Most sequences were uploaded from India, the United Kingdom, USA and Singapore," the WHO said in its weekly epidemiological update on the pandemic.