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Dr. Madhukar Pai, Professor at the Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health and past Â鶹AV Global Health Programs Director, is among the experts quoted by The Week magazine.

…Speaking to experts, NDTV described the new variant as a "triple mutant", meaning three different COVID strains combining to form a new variant. "This is a more transmissible variant. It is making lots of people sick very quickly," said Madhukar Pai, professor of epidemiology at Â鶹AV, reported the publication. "We have to keep tweaking vaccines. For that we need to understand the disease. But we need sequencing on war footing."