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By late April, India led the world in new and active cases. On 30 April 2021, it became the first country to report over 400,000 new cases in a 24-hour period. [ 15 ] [ 6 ] Experts stated that the virus may reach an endemic stage in India rather than completely disappear; [ 16 ] in late August 2021, Soumya Swaminathan said India may be in some ...
On 22 June, India's Ministry of Health and Family Welfare declared the "Delta plus" variant of COVID-19 a variant of concern, after 22 cases of the variant were reported in India. [154] After the announcement, leading virologists said there was insufficient data to support labelling the variant as a distinct variant of concern, pointing to the ...
The SARS-CoV-2 Kappa variant is also known as lineage B.1.617.1 and was first detected in India in December 2020. [2] By the end of March 2021, the Kappa sub-variant accounted for more than half of the sequences being submitted from India. [3] On 1 April 2021, it was designated a Variant Under Investigation (VUI-21APR-01) by Public Health ...
The World Health Organization declared JN.1 a "variant of interest" Tuesday — a designation that applies to variants that are driving new cases and have genetic changes that could help them ...
With 234,000 new cases, in addition to 1,341 new deaths, India recorded more than 1.6 million cases in the span of a week. As hospitals reached capacity, numerous reports indicated that many people died whilst awaiting treatment at and outside of hospitals or after being turned away. [34]
India said on Wednesday it has found around 40 cases of the Delta coronavirus variant carrying a mutation that appears to make it more transmissible, and advised states to increase testing.
Undercounting of cases and deaths during the COVID-19 pandemic in India is not unique to the country. [26] [19] Journalists, [27] mathematicians, [11] epidemiologists, [28] statisticians, and scientists have attempted, [29] according to their expertise, to arrive at a truer number of the actual cases and deaths. The aim of this is to ultimately ...
On the same day a case of reinfection with the new variant by a woman who had had COVID-19 was reported from Brazil, the first such reinfection reported in the world. [29] Canada reported the first case of this variant in Alberta on 9 January, [76] and Israel reported four cases, all of which were imported in people travelling from South Africa ...