AFP."We classify it as a variant of concern at a global level," Kerkhove told a briefing.The epidemiologist also said that WHO will issue more information on Tuesday on the covid variant first identified in India.
Earlier on Sunday, WHO's chief scientist Soumya Swaminathan informed Covid-19 variant spreading in India is more contagious and it is feared it could be dodging some vaccine protections, contributing to the country's explosive outbreakIn an interview with AFP, Soumya Swaminathan warned that "the epidemiological features that we see in India today do indicate that it's an extremely rapidly spreading variant".Swaminathan, an Indian paediatrician and clinical scientist, said the B.1.617 variant of Covid-19, which was first detected.