Prognosis
India’s Struggle to Track New Covid Variants Could Worsen Crisis
- Emergence of strains in India highlights monitoring blind spot
- Analyses show vaccines effective against B.1.617 strain
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The good news is that the vaccines work against a new virus strain circulating in India that’s spread to several other countries.
The bad news is it won’t be only the new version of the pathogen to emerge from an outbreak of this scale, underscoring the urgency of mapping other possible variants that may be currently racing through India’s tightly-packed population of 1.4 billion people.