Dr.
Vinod Scaria, who works with the Maharashtra Public Health Department on the genome supervision project, told TII that the state must be a role model for others because the sample is scientifically selected to ensure that each district is borne.
Your team has studied samples from the two most affected Indian states, Maharashtra and Kerala.
Please share your observations about Maharashtra.
Programs in Maharashtra and Kerala are developed as collaborative initiatives between CSIR and state government.
There are designed for supervision, to provide early warning and assist public health policies.
The main observation of Maharashtra is a systematic and uniform genome sequencing in each district.
This helps identify the emerging variants and the state government immediately apply public health measures.
Maharashtra must be a role model for other countries.
The Delta Plus case in Maharashtra has increased from 21 to 76 in a few days.
Can we now say Delta-Plus is a variant to pay attention? While Delta has become the main lineage in India and many parts of the world, the virus will continue to evolve by accumulating more genetic mutations.
Popular sub-lineage delta is called Delta Liner Plus because they have additional mutations in the background of the Delta genome.
This sub-line increased, but the number of cases has not been significantly significantly.
Considering Delta has influenced crores from India and bring havoc throughout the country during the second wave, can it still cause other waves? The wave of SARS-COV-2 infection has occurred throughout the world when people loosen their actions and their public health, and also because of the antibody level of existing infections or vaccines.
Although no one can certainly predict which variant will appear and cause the next wave, examples from the past from all over the world show the same variant can indeed cause many waves in a country.
As a greater proportion of the population becomes immune through vaccination and / or previous infections, infections that cause severe diseases and death will significantly fall and infection will become endemic.
What about delta sub-lines (in terms of their ability to cause waves)? There are 13 delta sub-lines on the date (ay.1 to AY.12 and AY.3.1).
At this time, it is impossible to predict which one will cause such waves to also depend on the vulnerable population in the region.
However, because there are no sub-gents that arise this so far can be fully escaped from immunity due to previous infections or vaccines, this is a priority urging us to vaccinate the entire population.
In the case of the intact genome sequencing, India was still far behind the global benchmark testing at least 5% of all positive samples.
What can be done to change this? It will be true to directly compare …
at this time the genome supervision strategy in India is very diverse, with some parts that are too represented and others are very poorly represented.
For informative and effective supervision, it is important we have a uniform and long-term supervision strategy for India.