In India, the number of cases of COVID-19 approached 30 million

In India, the number of reported cases of covid-19 has reached 29,935,221, according to data from the country's Ministry of HEALTH. Over the past day, 53,256 new cases of the disease have been detected.

Since the start of the pandemic, more than 388,135 patients with COVID-19 have died in India. Over the past 24 hours, 1,422 people have died from CORONAVIRUS in the country.

Gunzburg spoke about the "evil" Indian strain of coronavirus Society

Earlier, in the Indian state of Maharashtra, which is the leader in incidence, the spread of a new variant of the Indian strain of coronavirus, which was called "delta plus", was revealed. At the same time, the local Ministry of Health noted that the new strain has yet to be studied.

A variant of the coronavirus, dubbed "delta", was discovered in October last year. Since that time, it has spread throughout the world, it is also revealed in RUSSIA.

In India, the number of deaths from coronavirus exceeded 300 thousand Society

Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said on June 18 that almost 90% of COVID-19 cases in Moscow had an Indian strain. On June 16, the GISAID platform reported that the proportion of infections with this mutation in Russia exceeded 70%.

Scientists from King's College London noted that new strains of coronavirus, in particular, its Indian variant, are characterized by slightly different symptoms of the disease. According to them, now patients most often complain of headache, runny nose and sore throat, and a strong cough, which was common in patients with COVID-19 at the beginning of the pandemic, is not typical for this strain.

At the same time, in May, American scientists from Pittsburgh came to the conclusion that the usual symptoms of coronavirus - loss of smell, taste, headaches - should be attributed to neurological symptoms, which greatly increase the risk of death for the patient.

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