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‘U.K. strain’ - SARSCoV2 VUI 202012/01

 First reported to WHO on December 14.

Increased Virulence.

India needs mass genomic surveillance for that India has formed a consortium of leading genomics labs to make genome surveillance a routine continuous exercise which can shore up India's defenses against this pandemic and those of future.


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