As India set covid-19 death records, concerns under variant B.1.617.2 spread globally

Sharon Peacock, director of the British consortium Covid-19 Genomics, told reporters that various measures, from travel bans to seeking contacts, could be bought for some time. Nevertheless, a rapidly expanding variant, such as B.1.617.2, would have a “biological passport for international travel and global expansion” – meaning that international expansion was likely, perhaps inevitable.