Triple Mutation News Today

3,029,815.0 As India faces a turbulent time handling increasingly new COVID-19 cases, news has emerged about a new lineage (B.1.618), which is being colloquially called the Bengal strain. According to a report by TOIs Subhro Niyogi, experts say that this lineage may be capable of escaping a person’s immune surveillance, even if that person was earlier exposed to a virus without this lineage, and even if vaccinated. There has, however, been no research yet to either corroborate or dismiss the...

A policeman asks people to wear protective face masks, in Kolkata. (PTI) KOLKATA: The Covid-19 virus that is doing the rounds in Bengal is increasingly being found to be an indigenous triple-mutation (B.1.618), only the second one identified from India after the double mutant type (B.1.617) reported last month. The “Bengal strain”, as a scientist has dubbed it, might be more infective, and — something that experts find particularly worrying — may be capable of escaping a person’s imm...

Coronavirus: Scientists believe the new surges globally are driven by new variants. (Representational) New Delhi: As India reports nearly three lakh cases and over 2,000 deaths in 24 hours, the biggest jump since the pandemic erupted, a new mutation in the COVID virus has emerged as the new challenge. After the double mutation, its now the triple mutation, meaning three different Covid strains combining to form a new variant, has been detected in parts of the country. States like Maharashtra, ...

* Two of these triple mutant strains have been found in samples collected from Maharashtra, Delhi, West Bengal and Chhattisgarh. * Viruses mutate all the time, as part of evolutionary biology. Some mutations weaken the virus while others may make it stronger, enabling it to proliferate faster or cause more infections. * So far, Indias health ministry has only acknowledged the presence of the “double mutant”. However, it has only been identified as a "variant of interest" and not a "varian...