GENEVA: A Covid-19 variant spreading in India is more contagious and may be dodging vaccine protections, contributing to the country’s explosive outbreak, the World Health Organization’s (WHO) chief scientist said Saturday.

In an interview with Agence France-Presse, Soumya Swaminathan warned “the epidemiological features we see in India today do indicate it’s an extremely rapidly spreading variant.”

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