immune escape variant of covid virus detected

[The_King]

As India contends with its second major wave of COVID cases and a double-mutated variant of the virus, it now faces a new threat - a triple-mutant variant.

Scientists found two triple-mutant varieties in patient samples in four states: Maharashtra, Delhi, West Bengal, and Chhattisgarh. Researchers in the country have dubbed it the "Bengal strain" and say it has the potential to be even more infectious than the double-mutant variant.

This is because three COVID variants have merged to form a new, possibly deadlier variant.

The Times of India spoke to Vinod Scaria, a researcher at the CSIR-Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology in India, who said that the triple mutant was also an "immune escape variant" - a strain that helps the virus attach to human cells and hide from the immune system.

He added that it could have evolved from the double-mutant variant - which experts say is likely behind the recent surge of COVID in the country.

Sreedhar Chinnaswamy, a researcher from the National Institute of Biomedical Genomics in India, told the Times of India that the variant also carried the E484K mutation, a characteristic found in both the South African and Brazilian variants.

"In other words, you may not be safe from this variant even if you were previously infected by another strain, or even if you have been vaccinated," said Chinnaswamy.

This new threat is worrying. India's healthcare system has already reached a breaking point as it grapples with the second wave of COVID cases. Hospitals across the country are dealing with critical shortages of medical oxygen supplies. Yesterday, six hospitals in the country reportedly ran out of oxygen as the country grappled with a sudden surge in patients.

Oxygen supplies have been diverted from shipbreaking facilities and steel plants. Still, hospitals remain overwhelmed - with some desperate families even resorting to stealing oxygen cylinders from hospitals to keep their family members alive.

India recorded a daily high of 314,835 COVID cases on Thursday, but that worldwide record was broken within 24 hours when the country announced that it recorded 332,730 new cases and 2,263 deaths on Friday. The country now has over 16 million COVID cases, second only to the US's record of 32 million cases

 

 

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[The_King]

Nvm just the ceca agreement to come here or use Sri Lanka method (detail  found at those India trying to come to sg where they post comments ask how)

 

[socrates469bc]

confirm wuhan is genetically mod.

 

if no mod, how come can mutate lai mutate qu into so many variants in a yr????

 

a virus gene cannot so easily jump from 1 origin specie to another specie (ie human) that easily unless their dna r 90% similar.

 

it will be even more difficult in the case of wuhan as it is assumed to be of bat origin.

 

wuhan will need to make a jump to an intermediate host first b4 making the final leap to human.

 

the closest candidate for intermediate host is either primates or dogs.

 

in this case, i will take dogs and cats since the outbreak is assumed to be from wuhan wildlife market.

 

now, assuming that the intermediate host r dogs and cats, how come there is no en-masse infection detected during the evolution?????

 

therefore, i can safely rule out the possibility that the intermediate host r dogs and cats, thereby eliminating the possibility that wuhan evolved naturally.

 

so the only possibility left is of a lab leak.

 

 

 

 

[The_King]

The way there always imported case, it just a matter of time CB 2.0 begin

[Satki]

Just in time for Iswaran to call his bros for a bubble