A sample of the Indian variant of the coronavirus has now been identified in interior France, a local health organization director claimed on Thursday.
“We have identified that it was the Indian variant” from somebody who had come back from India, Benoit Elleboode, director of an organization in the southwestern department of Nouvelle-Aquitaine said to BFMTV and CNews televisions recently after Health Minister Olivier Veron stated that “no case of the variant of Indian origin” had been identified in central France.
The World Health Organization has mentioned recently that a variant of Covid-19 dreaded to be becoming a cause in a rush in coronavirus cases in India has been detected in a number of countries.
The UN health organization said the B.1.617 variant of Covid-19 initially spotted in India had as of Tuesday been identified in more than 1,200 categorizations added to the GISAID open-access record “from at least 17 countries”.
“Most sequences were uploaded from India, the United Kingdom, USA and Singapore,” the WHO stated.
The WHO recently registered B.1.617 — which amounts some sub-lineages with somewhat dissimilar alterations and characteristics — as a “variant of interest”.
