When scientists across the globe sounded the alarm about new variants of the SARS-Cov 2, which they suspect carry mutations with a potential to offset vaccine efficacy, officials in the state public Health laboratory were busy drafting a proposal to set up a whole genome sequencing lab for the state.
If the proposal is cleared, the state will soon have its own lab to sequence genomic code of the virus by the end of June.
Information available with the public health department shows the most common strain seen in the state, like in most parts of the country, is the double mutant B.1.617, now named Delta.