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The World Health Organization said that a variant of Covid-19 feared to be contributing to a surge in coronavirus cases in India has been found in over a dozen countries, AFP reports.

The UN health agency said the B.1.617 variant of Covid-19 first found in India had as of Tuesday been detected in over 1,200 sequences uploaded to the GISAID open-access database from at least 17 countries".