reports. Earlier, two suspected cases of the recombinant were reported from Maharashtra and Gujarat, but both were unconfirmed.
Assuaging fear of increasing cases of recombinant variants of Covid-19 cases surging in the country, last month, in its official bulletin, the INSACOG said, “very few recombinant variants have been discovered in India." It further stressed that so far, none showed either increased transmission (locally or otherwise) or associated with severe disease or hospitalization.
Incidences of suspected recombinants and the possible public health relevance are being closely monitored, confirmed INSACOG.
The INSACOG conducts genomic surveillance of SARS-CoV-2 across the country through sequencing of samples from Sentinel sites and International passengers arriving in India.