Why US Is "Flying Blind" To Covid Mutations Racing Across The World

Saturday, 30 January 2021Newsdesk

America currently has so little of the genetic sequencing needed to detect new variants of the coronavirus - like the ones first identified in Great Britain and South Africa - that such mutations are likely proliferating quickly, undetected, experts said.

New Delhi, 30 January 2021

As per news report of NDTV, the lack of widespread genetic sequencing means the window is closing to find and slow the spread of variants such as the one first spotted in Britain, which appears to be much more transmissible, and those initially detected in Brazil and South Africa. All have been discovered in small numbers in the United States. Now is when genetic sequencing - a process that maps out the genetic code of the particular virus that infected someone so it can be compared to others - would do the most good, while such variants are less prevalent in the US population and action can be taken against them.

Source -NDTV