The Hyderabad-based Centre for Cellular & Molecular Biology (CSIR-CCMB) has released a study of coronavirus variants that the virus variant N440K is spreading a lot more in South India.
The CCMB researchers and scientists analysed more than 5,000 Covid-19 variants in India to find how they have evolved throughout the pandemic. The study says that even though mutated variants of coronavirus have set warning bells ringing in other countries, their prevalence in India has been low so far.
As per reports, the new variant N440K was a very limited number in September and October last year. But now it is getting a much bigger proportion. It can also escape neutralising antibodies.
“We now have emerging evidence that N440K is spreading a lot more in the southern states. A closer surveillance is needed to understand its spread properly. Accurate and timely detection of new variants that may show greater infectivity or worse clinical symptoms, including immune escape, will be extremely important to preempt disastrous consequences,” said CCMB Director and corresponding author in the study, Dr RK Mishra.
Prabhas has been occupied with Kalki for a while now and that is understandable given…
Andhra Pradesh people were fully prepared for the intense clash between Jagan Mohan Reddy, Chandrababu…
Rumors began to circulate when the names “Krish” and “Jothi Krishna” appeared together in the…
As the election season is fast approaching the theories and threads about the electoral prospects…
If there is one thing that SRH has been missing this year, it would be…
The eagerly awaited social drama Kubera, directed by the renowned Sekhar Kammula, is creating a…