NCDC Director negates possibility of new COVID variant in India

Jun 27, 2022

New Delhi, June 27 (ANI): Amid the spike in COVID cases, National Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) Director Dr Sujeet Kumar Singh on June 27 said that they have not found any new variant of COVID in the country. “As per current data of genome sequencing, we don’t have any new variant of COVID in country. But most are sublineages of Omicron. BA.2 has been found to be dominant right now, in areas of Delhi and elsewhere too. Other lineages are being monitored,” he said.