With Over 40 Deaths In A Month, Aligarh Muslim University Fears A Virulent âAMU Strainâ Of CoronavirusÂ
by Swarajya Staff - May 14, 2021 11:09 AM
Aligarh Muslim University campus (Hemant Chawla/The India Today Group/Getty Images
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Chief minister Yogi Adityanath visited the university to review the situation on Thursday.
Authorities say that the lack of vaccination could be a reason behind the deaths. The vaccination drive at the campus has been going on since December.
A spate of deaths at the Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) in Uttar Pradesh has raised concerns and fears of a particularly deadly variant of the coronavirus in the campus. Some at the campus are even calling it âAMU strainâ.
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Reduced antibodies not a cause of worry on efficacy against COVID-19, say experts
Both Covishield and Covaxin, while effective at generating an immune response against the coronavirus, appear to generate only half as many antibodies against the B.1.617 strain, or the Indian strain, according to a series of early reports authored by scientists at the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR). Several scientists told
The Hindu that this drop didn t diminish the fact that the vaccines continued to be potent tool against COVID-19.
Scientists at the ICMR-National Institute of Virology (NIV), Pune have since January been collecting samples from coronavirus-positive individuals and testing them for prominent variants mostly the international variants of concern B.1.1.7 (UK variant), the B.1.351 (South Africa variant), the P2 (Brazil variant) and B.1.617 (Indian variant). Three related variants of the B.1.617 now make up an increasing proportion of cases in India.