Super Mutant DebunkedMutations occur when the virus replicates, and India’s unprecedented surge is driving new cases to global records, even as richer economies like the U.S.
and Israel re-open quickly. Fearing an influx of infections and mindful of B.1.617, Singapore, the U.K. and Tanzania are among countries that have curbed travel to and from India.Australia has banned its citizens from returning from India and imposed penalties of roughly $50,000 and five years imprisonment for violators.The India strain has been called a double mutant because of the presence of two changes in the virus’s genome, called E484Q and L452R.