The Delta variant and its sub-lineages were dominant from July to October 2021 and the first Omicron presence in India was detected in late November 2021, revealed the findings of a COVID-19 genomic surveillance initiative, of sequencing 12,800 SARS-CoV-2 samples from Bengaluru, which were released here on Sunday.
The findings were released by Strand Life Sciences, a genomics-based research and diagnostics company, as a part of the ‘ Celebrating Covid Genomic Sequencing and Surveillance effort in Karnataka’ event.
RT-PCR positive samples were collected between July, 2021, and June, 2022, from various laboratories in Bengaluru, sequenced, and analysed.
