Covid mutant has been detected with hundreds of samples carrying strain in India.A senior government official said the novel coronavirus was found in 206 samples in the worst-hit western state of Maharashtra.The new variant was also detected in nine samples in the capital New Delhi, the director of the National Centre for Disease Control, Sujeet Kumar Singh, told a news conference.A double mutation is "two mutations coming together in the same virus", virologist Shahid Jameel explains."A double mutation in the key areas of the virus's spike protein may increase these risks and allow the virus to escape the immune system and make it more infectious," he adds.It comes as 771 other coronavirus variants have been detected in samples from 18.
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