It’s not a new virus ... the Nipah virus were first documented in humans in 1998, with cases also being recorded in Singapore. Later, outbreaks occurred in regions of North East India and ...

India has recorded its highest daily coronavirus death toll since the pandemic began - a day after it became the first country to register more than 400,000 new cases in a 24-hour period.

A new "double mutant" variant of the coronavirus has been detected from samples collected in India ... the ones in the UK or South Africa variant lineages, can make the virus more infectious ...