B.1.617.2 Variant of Coronavirus Is Less Sensitive to Vaccines: Prof Ravindra Gupta of Cambridge
- 3 years ago
One of Cambridge University’s most highly regarded scientists working on the B.1.617.2 strain of the Indian mutant has said it is hard to precisely assess how much more transmissible this strain is compared to the UK variant. Prof Ravindra Gupta, who is a professor of clinical microbiology at the Cambridge Institute for Therapeutic Immunology and Infectious Diseases, said it could be 20, 30, or 50 per cent more transmissible. Last week, the official British advisory group SAGE had said there is a “realistic possibility” B.1.617.2 could be as much as “50% more transmissible”.
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