The World Health Organization (WHO) ranked, this Monday, May 10, 2021, the Indian variant of COVID-19, the B.1.617, as “worrying”, insofar as it is more contagious.
According to Maria Van Kerkhove, technical manager of the fight against COVVI-19 within the WHO, “there is information according to which the B.1.617 is more contagious but also elements which make it possible to think that he attenuates the response of the antibodies allowing to fight the virus”.
She pointed out that there remained a lot of research to conduct this variant, detected for the first time in India in October 2020 and present in 17 countries.
According to the WHO, most of the cases detected come from India, the United Kingdom, the United States and Singapore. The Indian variant has fifteen changes, including two municipalities with other variants.
A few days ago, six cases of the Indian variant were detected in Algeria
