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Efforts upped for tracing AY.4.2 Covid strain, boosting vaccination

INSACOG expanded, ASHA workers doing man to man surveys, tracking and tracing on

A health worker at Dadar railway station in Mumbai takes the swab sample of a woman to test for Covid-19 on October 5, 2021. (PTI Photo/Shashank Parade)
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A health worker at Dadar railway station in Mumbai takes the swab sample of a woman to test for Covid-19 on October 5, 2021. (PTI Photo/Shashank Parade)

Sohini Das Mumbai
Amid concerns about the AY.4.2 mutation, a sub-lineage of the AY.4 (Delta) variant, chief of India’s immunisation strategy group N K Arora says that efforts are being upped not only to track and trace new cases of infections and variants, but also have a ‘man-to-man marking’ at the ground level to ensure each unvaccinated individual gets a Covid-19 jab.

Arora, chief of National Technical Advisory Group on Immunisation in India (NTAGI) and also member of the India SARS-CoV-2 Genome Consortium (INSACOG) said that the number of institutions who are a part of INSACOG, the body that tracks emergence of new