In the clean energy revolution from national grid, helen skelton looks at the huge progress we're all making towards cleaner energy to help save our pla. John pickerel joins benjamin thompson in the hosting chare and i'm joined on the line by nature's john pickerel. In india, for weeks now, they've been having daily case numbers kind ofo 400 thousand new cases a day, or somewhere whereabouts that number. And so tat they've really been having higher case numbers there than any other country has had. They're in the middle of a devastating second wave of covered 19 what is described as 'absolutely catastrophic'
Over the past few weeks, India has been experiencing a devastating second wave of COVID-19, recording hundreds of thousands of new cases a day.
Evidence is growing that a new variant of the SARS-CoV-2 virus known as B.1.617, first detected in India in October, may be driving this wave.
On this week’s Coronapod we talk about the race to learn more about B.1.617, with early results suggesting it may be more transmissible and could cause more severe disease.
News: Coronavirus variants are spreading in India — what scientists know so far
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