Indian COVID Variant ‘B-1617’ Found In 44 Countries, WHO Releases Statement

Geneva – The World Health Organization has said that a variant of COVID-19 behind the acceleration of India’s explosive outbreak has been found in dozens of countries all over the world. The United Nations Health Agency said that the B-1617 variant of COVID-19, first found in India in October, had been detected in sequences uploaded to the GI said Open Access database from 44 countries in all six WHO regions.

The agency added that there are reports of detections from five additional countries. The variant first identified in India has been classified as a variant of global concern. With some preliminary studies showing that it spreads more easily, a senior official had informed this.

Now, the B-1617 of the COVID-19 is the fourth variant to be designated as one of the global constants that requires more tracking and analysis. The three other strains were first detected in the United Kingdom, South Africa, and Brazil.

So, a strain that started as a strain of a variant of interest to the World Health Organization has now turned into the interest of concern for the global authorities and the WHO says that reports of the Indian variant have now been found in 44 countries obviously, it was initially restricted to India then moved to a few countries and then a total number of 44 countries is what the WHO says, that have the strains of the Indian variant.

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