Mostly European strain in WB’s early Covid cases

Most of the earliest nCoV strains found in Bengal were of a mutated subtype found in Europe, according to a preliminary genome analysis. At least one strain was from China, while two others — found in people who hailed from East Midnapore, with no international travel history — were of a subtype rarely found in India.

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