India is increasing the number of new crowns diagnosed with more than 110,000 mutant viruses, there are delays in testing?

　　China News Service, April 7th. According to Indian media reports, data released by the Indian Ministry of Health on the 7th showed that in the past 24 hours, there were 115,736 new confirmed cases of new crowns in India, a record high in the number of new cases in a single day, and the cumulative number of confirmed cases rose to 12,801,785 cases; 630 new deaths, with a total of 166,177 deaths.

　　The Times of India pointed out that the mutated new coronavirus may be driving a surge in infections in India.

Scientists have warned that India has "delays" in quickly testing samples of new coronavirus infections to find research mutated viruses, which may affect the country's anti-epidemic.

Data map: Taj Mahal, India, staff disinfect the railings.

　　According to reports, there has been a surge in confirmed and dead cases in India recently.

Among them, on the 5th, the Indian Ministry of Health released data showing that the country's new confirmed cases of new crowns in a single day exceeded 100,000 for the first time.

Maharashtra is one of the hardest-hit areas of the epidemic. The local area has stopped all non-essential services, required private companies to work from home, and closed shopping malls and restaurants.

　　According to the report, after it was discovered that people entering India from the United Kingdom were infected with the mutated virus reported by the United Kingdom, India established 10 official laboratories to sequence the infected samples in December 2020.

However, between January and March 2021, India only studied 11064 samples.

　　Bhramar Mukherjee, professor of biostatistics and epidemiology at the University of Michigan, believes that as early as the beginning of February, India’s daily new confirmed cases had reached about 11,000, but the country did not have enough mutated viruses. Data to explain the rebound of the epidemic curve.

　　According to the Ministry of Health of India, as of March 30, India has reported 807 cases of mutated virus infections found in the UK, 47 cases of mutated virus infections found in South Africa, and 1 case of mutated virus infections found in Brazil.

　　The Ministry of Health of India also previously stated that although a variety of mutant viruses have been found, it is not yet certain whether the recent worsening of the epidemic situation in some areas is related to these mutant viruses. Related gene sequencing and epidemiological investigations are still ongoing.