Wu Zunyou, the chief epidemiologist of the CDC of China (China), has claimed that there have been cases of Indian variants in the country.
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China has claimed that Indian ‘double mutant strain’ of coronavirus has been found in some of its cities. The country’s leading epidemiologist has given information about this. Wu Zunyou, the chief epidemiologist at China’s ‘Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’ (CDC), said in a press conference that Indian COVID-19 strains have been detected in some cities in my country. Everybody is worried and scared.
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), China is not among the 17 countries where the Indian strain of Sars-CoV-2 has been found. Sars-CoV-2 is also known as B.1.617 or ‘double mutant’. The WHO said on Tuesday that about 1200 cases of B.1.617 variants of COVID-19 have been received. 17 countries have uploaded information about these cases to the GISAID open-access database. Most of the uploading has been done from India, UK, USA and Singapore.
The statement came after 11 Chinese citizens were infected
Wu Xunyou’s statement has come on the occasion of Labor Day, when millions of Chinese people are going to travel across the country. Public transport booking has crossed the level of 2019 before the epidemic. However, Jhunayu did not provide information about which cities they are, where this variant has been found. The timing of his statement also becomes important because the government media reported that 11 Chinese citizens who returned to the country after completing the voyage of the cargo ship have been found corona infected. The ship also halted at the Kakinada port in Andhra Pradesh, India.
No claim to be infected with Indian variants
Health officials in the coastal province of Zhejiang said that 11 of the 20 Chinese crew members of the cargo ship in the province’s Zhoushan port have been infected with variants found in India. The ship, named Huayang Chaoyang, also halted during its voyage to Kakinada in Andhra Pradesh, Chittagong in Bangladesh, Singapore and Xiamen in China. The corona contamination of the ship’s crew members was reported when the ship was repaired at the Zhoushan Shinya Shipyard in Zhejiang Province and the corona members underwent a corona test. However, it is not yet completely clear that Indian variants are the reason for their infection.
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