A coronavirus variant first identified in India will be classified as a “variant of concern” by the World Health Organization, which said preliminary studies showed it may be more transmissive than some other variants
first identified in India
as a global “variant of concern,” saying preliminary studies showed it may be more transmissible than some other variants. The variant, known as B.1.617, is being studied by scientists around the world as they try to figure out its role in the fast-growing Covid-19 surge in India. “The pattern now is that one person in the family gets it, the whole family seems to get it. This is unlike the first wave. And so I think what we’re seeing is more transmissible,” the WHO’s chief scientist, Dr. Soumya Swaminathan, said in an interview.
B.1.617 is the fourth “variant of concern” classified by the WHO. The U.N. agency has also given the same designation to
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