New Virus Strains more Infectious but Fatality Rate not so Dangerous

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.

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