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Scientists find second most common coronavirus type in India
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- Most dominant type – A2a
- Second most dominant is named as – A3i
- With this, total 11 SARS-CoV-2 types identified globally and 6 out of them found in India
- Virus type based on evolutionary similarities, characteristic mutations and similarities in Genome
- Mutation in A2a type => Penetrate easily into lungs
- Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology and Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology are labs of CSIR
- A3i type – dominant in Telangana, Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu and Delhi
- A3i type – mutation is slow compared to A2a type