India, June 19 -- By Shalini Bhardwaj

Pune (Maharashtra) [India], June 19 (ANI): As the Covid-19 active cases are dropping constantly after a peak for a few weeks, ICMR-NIV Pune Director Dr Naveen Kumar said the cases of the Singapore strain Nimbus variant has also been reported in India.

"ICMR - NIV is involved in doing the diagnosis as well as the genomic analysis of the SARS-COV-2 variants, which are circulating... We are getting the SARS-COV-2 strains positive in the respiratory samples," Kumar said.

He further said, "So it has never been zero; maybe cases were very few, but after the rise of the number of cases in Singapore and other neighbouring countries, we also observed that the strain which is circulating in Singapore which w...