(VOVWORLD) - A new variant of SARS-CoV-2, called N440K, is surfacing in various parts of India. Reports say the variant is around 15 times more lethal than the previous strains.
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Scientists at the Indian Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology (CCMB) have found that lineages with N440K are not the dominant ones in the second wave of the coronavirus pandemic in India.
While N440K was indeed a mutation of concern in South India during and after the first wave, current data shows that it is slowly being replaced by new variants of concern, dubbed a double-mutant variant and variant identified in the UK.