Punjab's Request To Centre As 81% New Covid Cases Found To Be UK Strain

Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh has requested Prime Minister Narendra Modi to urgently allow vaccination for younger people as 81 per cent of Covid samples in the state showed infection by the UK variant of the virus.

The B117 -- an extremely virulent form of the virus -- is largely affecting younger people and the UK authorities have found that the Covishield vaccine is effective against it, the Chief Minister has said.

 

Genome sequencing was done on 401 samples from Punjab recently and the results showed 81 per cent samples were of the B117 virus, which started spreading in the UK since November