Indore's coronavirus strain may be deadlier, will send samples to NIV, say doctors

In a worrisome development, doctors treating COVID-19 cases in Indore informed that a more virulent strain may be wreaking havoc in the city, which has emerged as the coronavirus hotspot in Madhya Pradesh. According to the doctors, the samples from Indore, where COVID-19 has killed 57 people, will be sent to the Pune-based National Institute of Virology (NIV) to confirm their apprehensions of the strain being deadlier than in other parts of the country.

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