The WHO declared a coronavirus variant first identified in India, B.1.617, as a “variant of concern,” the agency’s fourth such designation wsj.com/articles/coron…
One can understand the gravity of this announcement: The Indian variant, #B1717 is now clubbed with UK #B117, SA #B1351 & Brazil’s #P1
I think this data is saying "Take B.1.617 very seriously and surge test, contact trace, support isolation of cases & contacts, ring vaccinate - NOW" @chrischirp Look, experts from UK are sounding alert on a variant originated from here! And what was our response? 
Considering the rampant detection of vaccine #breakthrough cases in India, some amount of ‘immune evasion’ is a distinct possibility
Who is supposed to conduct neutralisation studies here? We need to URGENTLY identify diff variants at different geographical regions of India & their immune evading potential to the two vaccines being used here
https://twitter.com/DrEricDing/status/1391860190002229248
This is what is needed here also👇 But we are still doing <1% of genomic sequencing of all the isolates
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