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What we know about the B1617 variant from India as COVID-19 sweeps South Asia
Beds are seen inside a Gurudwara (Sikh Temple) converted into a COVID-19 care facility in New Delhi, India on May 5, 2021. (Photo: REUTERS/Adnan Abidi)
11 May 2021 05:00PM(Updated: 12 May 2021 07:15PM)
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NEW DELHI: India has recorded the world's sharpest spike in coronavirus infections this month, with political and financial capitals New Delhi and Mumbai running out of hospital beds, oxygen and medicines.
Scientists are studying what led to the unexpected surge, and particularly whether a variant of the novel coronavirus first detected in India is to blame.


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The variant, named B1617, has been reported in 17 countries, raising global concern.
Here are the basics:

WHAT IS THE B1617 VARIANT FROM INDIA?
The B1617 variant contains two key mutations to the outer "spike" portion of the virus that attaches to human cells, said senior Indian virologist Shahid Jameel.
The World Health Organization (WHO) said the predominant lineage of B1617 was first identified in India last December, although an earlier version was spotted in October 2020.
On May 10, the WHO classified it as a "variant of concern", which also includes variants first detected in Britain, Brazil and South Africa. Some initial studies showed the B1617 variant from India spreads more easily.
 

38 new community COVID-19 cases in Singapore, highest in more than a year​

Seven of the 38 community cases have tested "preliminarily positive" for the B1617 variant, which was first detected in India.
 
MOH should now let us know who is case 0 for this Indian variant B1617.
 
Is the Real Risk From India Being Detected?
Out of self-interest, the rest of the world better help quickly to understand how a Covid variant is devastating the country.

If you haven’t heard of B.1.617 yet, chances are you soon will.



This particular Covid-19 variant is at least partly behind the overwhelming second wave in India, the current global epicenter of the pandemic. The World Health Organization has now raised B.1.617 from a “variant of interest” to a “variant of concern.” Authorities like Public Health England are already treating it as the latter, meaning there’s something worrying about one or more of the criteria on which a virus is judged — including how fast it transmits, how many it kills, and whether it evades detection or makes vaccines less effective.



The stakes underlying these threat thresholds have risen beyond guessing the true extent of the unfolding disaster in India. Whether daily fatalities and new cases are, as officially reported, around 4,000 and 400,000, respectively, or closer to 25,000 deaths and between 2 million and 5 million infections, as Brown University School of Public Health’s Ashish Jha estimates, the rest of the world needs to help the country combat this menace. Out of pure self-interest.

Whatever variant India is experiencing is not nearly as bad as whatever variant is spreading in Columbia and other South American countries.

You can see clearly from the stats that the South American strain of the virus is way more lethal than its Indian counterpart.

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Indian variant looks way less serious than the Brazilian with a Brazilian.
 
East European variant is running hotter than the Indian variant too.

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They're already bike racing in Italy even though Covid is still around. There's no point hiding indoors because all it does is make things worse.

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616 and 617
which is more difficult to detect?
which is more lethal?
 
Whatever variant India is experiencing is not nearly as bad as whatever variant is spreading in Columbia and other South American countries.

You can see clearly from the stats that the South American strain of the virus is way more lethal than its Indian counterpart.

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Wrong. Again. Call it 0 for 234 tries.

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