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According to the World Health Organization (WHO), the Indian variant is present in all six regions of the organization. More precisely, the B.1.617 variant has been detected in sequences added to the GISAID database from 44 countries.
The Indian variant detected in all six WHO regions
This Wednesday, May 12, 2021, the World Health Organization (WHO) said that the variant that caused the explosion in the number of cases of covid-19 in India is present in dozens of other countries around the world . In fact, the B.1.617 variant, which appeared for the first time in India in October, was detected in sequences added to the GISAID database ” from 44 countries in all six WHO regions “. The organization also indicates that it has received ” detection notifications in five other countries “.
According to official statistics, there are around 4,000 deaths from Covid-19 per day in India. In total, the toll of the epidemic in India counts more than 250,000 deaths. Apart from India, which is currently the worst center of the pandemic in the world, it is in Great Britain that the largest number of cases of contamination with the B.1.617 variant has been detected. For the time being, France has only a few cases.
A variant classified as “worrying” because it is more contagious
The Indian variant was recently classified by the WHO as ” worrying Because of its greater contagiousness. Indeed, the World Health Organization indicates that “ B.1.617 has a higher growth rate than other variants circulating in India, suggesting greater contagiousness “. It thus joins the list of three other variants, those which first appeared in Great Britain, Brazil and South Africa, which are considered to be more dangerous than the original strain of the coronavirus, either because they are more contagious, deadly or resistant to certain vaccines.