Two years on, India's battle with COVID-19, its variants continue with no end in sight
Till now, India has reported 4,10,92,522 cases and 4,94,091 fatalities due to COVID-19 and its variants New Delhi: Amid the third wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, India has completed two years since the first coronavirus case was reported in the country and during this time, it has not just battled the virus but also its mutated variants, even as uncertainty continues to surround the expected course of the pandemic. It was on 30 January, 2020 when a third-year medical student from Wuhan university tested positive for coronavirus, becoming the country’s first COVID-19 patient, days after she had returned home following semester holidays. A senior official said out of 1.5 lakh samples sequenced till 2 January, 2022, variants of concern and interest have been found in 71,428 of them. Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya on 29 January, 2022, said irrespective of the COVID-19 variants, ‘Test-Track-Treat-Vaccinate and Adherence to Covid-Appropriate Behaviour’ will continue to remain the tested strategy for COVID-19 management.
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