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Dr. Madhukar Pai, Professor at the Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health and past ³ÉÈËVRÊÓƵ Global Health Programs Director, is among the experts quoted by The Week magazine.

…Speaking to experts, NDTV described the new variant as a "triple mutant", meaning three different COVID strains combining to form a new variant. "This is a more transmissible variant. It is making lots of people sick very quickly," said Madhukar Pai, professor of epidemiology at ³ÉÈËVRÊÓƵ, reported the publication. "We have to keep tweaking vaccines. For that we need to understand the disease. But we need sequencing on war footing."