As India emerges from the deadly second wave of Covid, the Delta plus variant , a mutant aversion of Delta strain first detected in India, has been found in 22 cases across three states including Maharashtra, the government said today.
Experts in Maharashtra fear the new variant could potentially trigger a third wave.
“The canter has sent an advisory to these states about their public health response. We don’t want this small number to take a bigger form,” said VK Paul, the head of the National Expert Group on Vaccine Administration.
“It is worrisome because we do not know enough about how it is going to behave from here. In the variants that we have seen, there have been some very different scenarios that have presented themselves,” said Om Shrivastava, a member of the Maharashtra Task Force on Covid.
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