Updated Apr 16, 2021 | 06:49 IST
PGMER director Jagat Ram said the UK variant has a higher transmission rate and spreads faster. India on April 14,2021 recorded 2,00,739 new coronavirus cases. Health workers help a patient towards a dedicated COVID-19 hospital in Ahmedabad | Photo Credit: AP
Chandigarh: In a cause of grave concern, 70 per cent of 60 samples sent to the National Centre for Diseases Control by the PGIMER, Chandigarh, had UK variants of Covid-19 and 20 per cent of the samples had 681 H mutant.
With coronavirus cases increasing at a rate much faster in the second wave, the report from PGIMER, Chandigarh is a matter of serious concern as it has been found that the UK variant of the virus is highly contagious.