Sars CoV 2 -How Challenging is the Emerging Variant?
Abstract
Sarc CoV 2(Novel Corona Virus), is soon emerging as the mother of all pandemics in respect to the number of cases, that hovers over 146 million1,2. As of 24/04/2021, India recorded over 16.6 million COVID cases with 189,549 deaths, second only to the United States of America (USA) with the corresponding figures at 32,735,704 and 585,075 respectively2. Officially the days are not far away, when, India will take away this unfortunate and infamous crown from the USA, especially, the way the pandemic has flared up in its’ second wave. But estimates based on the number of the population tested per million, it is being predicted that India is harbouring about 400 million cases, more than the total population of USA3.
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