New Delhi, Feb. 10 -- Covid-19 virus has mutated 223 times worldwide, with its harmful effects diminishing over time. Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya stated in Lok Sabha on Friday. He compared COVID-19 to influenza, noting that it will persist but its current variants are not deadly.
"When a virus mutates more than 100 times, its harmful effects get reduced. Covid also got mutated. So far, the Covid virus has mutated 223 times," he said during the Question Hour. He said that like influenza, which hits people once or twice every year, "Covid is with us and it will remain".
"Covid sub-variants are not that deadly and there are no negative effects," he said.
Mandaviya said health is such an issue where all stakeholders and countries...