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12 May, 5 tweets, 3 min read
If you haven’t heard of B.1.617 yet, chances are you soon will.

This Covid-19 variant is at least partly behind the overwhelming second wave in India bloomberg.com/opinion/articl…
Authorities are treating B.1.617 as a “variant of concern," meaning there’s something worrying about the criteria on which a virus is judged:

➡️ How fast it transmits
➡️ How many it kills
➡️ If it evades detection or makes vaccines less effective trib.al/mMGYSUX
The rest of the world needs to better understand how a Covid variant is devastating the country. Out of pure self-interest.

The longer it takes to tame India’s second wave, the higher the risk of a variant that does escape vaccine protection trib.al/mMGYSUX
For itself and the rest of the world, New Delhi must step up genome surveillance to solve the devastating Covid crisis, writes @andymukherjee70.

Plans being laid for reopening and economic recovery everywhere could depend on it trib.al/mMGYSUX
As countries help India as Covid cases and deaths surge, they should in return ask for:

➡️ Honest reporting of coronavirus case and fatality data
➡️ Much greater genomic scrutiny of the emerging variants than is currently being conducted trib.al/mMGYSUX

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