Top Headlines: Tracking multiple Covid strains; FMCG companies hike prices

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Too early to call new Covid variant more lethal, transmissible: ICMR

Structural changes in the heavily mutated Covid variant, first detected in South Africa, need not be interpreted as lethal or highly transmissible, said the ICMR on Friday, a day after the government called for rigorous testing of travellers from at-risk countries. Read more
 

Tracking multiple coronavirus variants that have been active over time

Multiple coronavirus variants have been detected in the country since the pandemic took hold in March 2020, with Delta being the most devastating. It accounted for a minority of the variants detected in January before