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| Covid- 19 variant of concern (b.1.617.2) ravages Jammu | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, June 12: Recent epidemiological studies have suggested the role of new emerging SARS-CoV-2 variants for worsening the second COVID wave in India. The sudden increase in the number of COVID related deaths in UT of J&K especially Jammu has raised an alarm about the circulating variant of concern(B.1.617.2) in Jammu, as emphasised by Dr Shashi Sudhan Principle and Dean GMC Jammu. Dr Sudhan further said that the COVID positive samples are routinely sent to Indian SARS CoV-2 Consortium of Genomics (INSACOG) for genomic sequencing and analysis of circulating COVID-19 viruses and several variants have been reported in Jammu.
Dr Sudhan , said, “there is available information to suggest that the increased transmissibility and increased deaths in the month of May, were linked to the variant of concern”. As per the recent data of Covid-19 Positives samples sent from Department of Microbiology, GMC Jammu to National Centre for Disease Control, Delhi, for genetic sequencing, 68.5% of the tested positive patients are reported to have variant of concern i.e. B.1.617.2, generally known as the double mutant and been classified as being “of concern” by the WHO. PMC further said that the mortality rate among patients admitted in the HDU of GMC, Jammu was 62.5% in those infected with the variant of concern, with a very high number of young patients indicating the higher public health implications of the variant. Dr. Sharma further added that “ among those patients admitted 58.4% were reported to have B.1.617.2 ( the variant of concern ); 22.47% were reported to have B.1 mutation, 6.74% were having B.1.1 mutation, 3.37% had B.1.617.1 variant while as 1.1% had B .1.1.7 the UK variant. |
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