Covid-19 vaccination may have started, but health experts are concerned about new variants

With technology to detect new variants not available, and inoculation taking time to complete, doctors urge all to continue following safety measures strictly.

A sudden surge in new Covid-19 cases in Pokhara lately set off alarm bells among health officials, as the new trend in the city was contrary to what was noticed in other areas, including Kathmandu, where the number of infections was coming down. Polymerase chain reaction tests conducted on swab samples of those people who had come into contact with those who had returned from abroad showed they were positive for Covid-19 but negative for “s-gene target”.