Is that like double secret deadly virus?
SOURCE: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-56517495
Q: Is the variant the reason behind India’s second wave?
India reported 47,262 cases and 275 deaths on Wednesday - the sharpest daily rise this year.
Dr Rakesh Mishra, director of the Hyderabad-based Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology (CCMB), told me that the “double-variant” had been found in 20% of the cases in Maharashtra, which has seen a huge spike in reported infections.
“One suspicion is that this variant is the cause of India’s second wave of infections. I would say no, 80% of the samples we have sequenced don’t have this combination of mutants. This mutant has been linked to only 230 cases in Maharashtra of the several thousand samples sequenced,” he said.