Why India's COVID-19 Mortality Rate Has Been Better Than Global Average

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CSIR's Hyderabad-based Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology, which has been studying thousands of coronavirus strains across the country, says increasingly the Indian strain is becoming similar to the global strain. Will that push up the mortality rate in India, which has been significantly less than the worldwide figures? NDTV spoke to CCMB director Dr Rakesh K.Mishra.

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