Even as India records the highest ever surge in Covid cases, the country s top virologists and medical experts say that new strains of coronavirus are not so dangerous as perceived by many. Though new strains of virus are spreading faster, causing breathlessness in more numbers, but its fatality rate is not so dangerous if compared to the previous ones, Amulya Panda, Director of National Institute of Immunology (NII), India s premier institute for developing vaccines, told IANS. The NII Chief, who led a team of top scientists in developing a new protein based vaccine for Covid-19, said that as of now, the initial findings suggests that various new strains of virus could be dangerous but not more dangerous than the earlier ones.
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