The World Health Organization reclassifies the Indian version of the coronavirus with a triple mutation as causing anxiety at the global level. According to WHO classification, such status is assigned to viruses, if it has been proven that it is more infected, more deadly or more resistant to modern vaccines and treatment methods.
The reclassification of the Indian variety of COVID-19 was announced at a press conference to respond to COVID-19 WHO Maria Van Kerkhove, reports CNBC.
According to her, the indian coronavirus version has three lines of changes from the source strain of coronavirus and spreads more quickly. “Therefore, we classify it as an option of concern at the global level,” the representative of WHO noted.
Weekly before WHO stated that he watched around the world for ten variants of coronavirus, including the Indian variety, but then the experts classified a strain with a triple mutation as an “option of interest.”
To the concern at the global level, the WHO had previously carried out three strains of coronavirus: British, which became the most common in the United States, South African and the option found in Brazil. According to Wang Kerchove, in the report on the situation with COVID-19 on Tuesday, May 11, it will describe in detail all three differences of the Indian strain from other options. One of the reasons for the explosive growth of incidence in India, scientists call the coronavirus strain, which was first revealed in October last year. Among his mutations there are two, which were discovered in other strains. One of them makes a virus more contagious, and the other allows it to hide from the antibodies.