Covid-19 mutants need to be tracked strictly as they have the capability to arise anywhere, said the central government on Tuesday.
It informed that the government bodies are carefully monitoring Alpha, Beta, Gamma, Delta and Delta Plus variants. Addressing media on the current Covid-19 situation in India, National Centre for Disease Control director Dr SK Singh said: "The variants of concern that we monitor are Alpha, Beta, Gamma, Delta, and Delta Plus.
There are two variants under investigation - Kappa and B1617.3." "We were doing two kinds of surveillance - to monitor variants of concern (coming from outside) and to monitor the impact of the Delta variant in the country.